'Everything is becoming AI intelligent and AI-enabled': Oracle database head says agents are the future, but warns there's no magic bullet

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Fri, 03 Apr 2026 10:05:00 +0000

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The AI agent-powered workforce is coming sooner than youd expect, Oracle database head tells us.

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As one of the worlds most prominent data firms, Oracle is looking to help
lead the way when it comes to greater AI agent integration in the workplace, and at its recent Oracle AI World Tour London event, revealed a host of new releases and tools in that vein. But what will this AI agent-powered future actually look like? I sat down with Juan Loaiza, EVP, Oracle Database at the event, to find out more. Article continues below You may like Business landscape is about to undergo a seismic transformation driven by AI agents AI is not here to replace expertise, it's here to elevate: Oracle CEO says the best still to come when it comes to agentic innovation Oracle is revamping
how businesses procure AI agents leave the invoices to AI while you handle the negotiations The AI world In the AI world, youre on a very rapid treadmill, Loaiza tells me, the technology is advancing so quickly, and the adoption is so fast, it's like nothing we've ever seen before.

AI is moving extraordinarily rapidly, and so we have to keep up with that speed, he notes, there's a lot of parts to this thing! Everything is agentic now...so we're putting a lot of work into agents, in many different ways.

Clearly agents are the next big thing in AI - so we want to be able to build very data-centric agents very easily,

Oracle revealed its AI database launch in October 2025 in a move Loaiza says re-architected the companys whole data platform around AI, and the ability to easily build AI-centric agents is clearly a major priority for the company going forward. Are you a pro? Subscribe to our newsletter Sign up to the TechRadar Pro newsletter to get all the top news, opinion, features and guidance your business needs to succeed! Contact me with news and offers from other Future brands Receive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners
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Loaiza notes how every piece of the Oracle data stack, and every component,
is becoming AI-enabled, with over 100 features in its database empowered that way right now.

Everything is becoming AI intelligent and AI-enabled. (Image credit: Future / Mike Moore) But a big part of greater acceptance of AI will be trust, Loaiza notes, describing it as, the fundamental building block everything else has
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Especially as workers increasingly look to harness AI to improve their productivity and efficiency, Oracle is looking to ensure private data,
whether personal or enterprise, is kept protected from AI tools , right down to the data level, which cannot be bypassed. Customers can now define rules
on what database access is permitted, so when any data is changed, the mechanism will kick in, making sure that when the AI modifies data, there is no chance of error or corruption - hopefully.

There's no magic bullet, Loaiza admits, so what we're building is different ways to enhance trust for different kinds of workloads and different kinds of users.

Loaiza outlines three levels of trust, going from that needed from an experienced workplace user such as a software developer, to more general worker, such as an HR employee, down to a member of the public.

What we need to understand is, the goals are different at each of these levels, he says, we're starting to learn that AI is not one uniform thing - you have to separate the different use cases, they have different requirements, different levels of trust that are required - and that's part
of the whole learning process of the new world that we're entering.

Loaiza admits trust is the big challenge going forward for the level of trust given to AI, noting that even natural language questioning can be ambiguous
or ill-defined, so AI might get the wrong response due to misunderstanding your question

There's no doubt AI can offer huge benefits to workers everywhere - Loaiza says he sees the main benefits of the technology spreading across productivity, innovation and getting insights and answers from data - saying the technology could unlock, almost a different world unlocking possibilities for all end users.

Since computers were invented, humans have had to learn the language of computers in order to interact, he adds, now computers can interact with the language of humans - that takes it from 0.01% of the population being able to interact effectively with computers and data, to 100% of the population!



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