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Workday brings autopilots to finance in autonomous AI bet

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The company said its latest tools will anticipate needs and take actions across finance and HR workflows, with customer-defined controls.

Published Oct. 13, 2026

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Workday is betting the next phase of enterprise AI adoption will be less about assistants that respond to prompts and more about agents that can initiate and carry out tasks — from spotting missing payroll data to preparing accounting entries.
The company on Tuesday announced new “autopilot” agents designed to work in the background across hiring, payroll, accounting and other business processes.
“Until now, AI has worked like a copilot — helpful, but only when you ask it something,” Joel Hellermark, chief AI officer at Workday, said in a statement. “That’s not enough anymore. Our agents work like autopilots — they get the...

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