Soumitra Dutta‚ former dean of the Saïd Business School of the University of Oxford and cofounder of the Portulans Institute‚ in a recent post on X‚ wrote about how agentic AI can impact research. Dutta has a PhD in computer science from UC Berkeley from 1990‚ specializing in AI․ He is a co-founder of NexiVerify‚ an AI verification company that produces cryptographic receipts for AI outputs‚ and Caasaa‚ an AI-native software development firm that transforms business processes.

The upcoming phase of AI will be different․ "The next era of AI is about turning perception into reasoning and imagination into action‚" says Soumitra Dutta‚ former dean of Oxford's Saïd Business School and co-creator of the Global Innovation Index

Moltbook is a social network for AI agents‚ which are autonomous and powered by their own reasoning engines․ These AI agents are capable of communicating with another and building a reputation and forming what amounts to a community․ Moltbook has attracted the attention of Soumitra Dutta‚ former dean of Oxford Said Business School and co-creator of the Global Innovation Index․ "It's like watching a digital ant farm‚ but the ants are possibly smarter than we are," says Dutta.

Soumitra Dutta, former dean of Oxford's Said Business School, speaks of as among the best young minds of their generation‚ but also the visitors‚ the lecturers‚ the prize-winners‚ the pioneers․