JPMorgan Chase is set to use artificial intelligence agents later this year. These agents will work autonomously for up to two hours at a time, CNBC reported.
The agents will be used to perform tasks like managing workflows across software programs.
“We’ve entered now the era of long-running autonomous agents,” Derek Waldron, JPMorgan chief analytics officer, told CNBC. Which “means that agents don’t just run for two or three minutes to carry out a goal or some instructions of a human, they can run for an hour or two.”
While security concerns remain, Waldron said he sees the agents arriving later in 2026. He said they will improve to a point of multiple hours, days and then weeks.
