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The deployment of automated software systems called AI agents has recently exploded. A November 2025 report by MIT Sloan School of Management and Boston Consulting Group found that 35 percent of surveyed businesses had already deployed AI agents, while another 44 percent planned to implement agentic AI soon. 

She's bringing her insatiable curiosity to CSAIL as the new host of Building 32, a podcast from CSAIL Alliances.

Srini Devadas, MIT Webster Professor of EECS and CSAIL principal investigator, has earned the 2026 ACM-IEEE CS Eckert-Mauchly Award for making key contributions to “secure architectures with broad industrial and academic impact,” according to the ACM and IEEE.

Agentic workflows are artificial intelligence-powered software systems that chain together multiple models and external tools to tackle complicated tasks, like analyzing a video and answering questions about it.