Vala Afshar: Trust in the age of AI

By leveraging the anti-silo mindset, agentic AI can elevate the user’s ability to create, add, and improve even faster and smarter than before.Vala Afshar speaks with Lev Gonick on the release of his new book, Autonomous: Why the Fittest Businesses Embrace AI-First Strategies and Digital Labor, and on the value of lifelong learners. For Afshar, staying teachable and embracing the new and improved, is imperative to embracing the anti-silo mindset. “It’s not companies or institutions that disrupt, it’s people that disrupt,” Afshar said.Vala Afshar is Chief Digital Evangelist for Salesforce, and author of bestselling books, The Pursuit of Social Business Excellence, Autonomous: Why the Fittest Businesses Embrace AI-First Strategies and Digital Labor, and Boundless: A New Mindset for Unlimited Business. A storyteller and an expert in upcoming digital business transformation, Afshar frequently gives key business innovation insights while keeping the conversation open for new ideas as a top marketing officer.This episode was filmed at the Agentic AI and the Student Experience Summit in Tempe, hosted by ASU Enterprise Technology.