Microsoft’s AI Futurist on What’s Next: Computer-Use Agents, New Interfaces, and Language

AI isn’t just changing what we can build, it’s changing how we communicate, make decisions, and experience daily life.

In this episode of Rendered, Marco Casalaina (VP of Core AI & Futurist Products at Microsoft) joins for a wide-ranging conversation on what the future of AI actually feels like. From breakthrough computer-use agents, to designing products for humans and AI, to the subtle ways AI may be reshaping language, thought, and culture.

🎧 In this episode:

• Marco’s role leading AI Futures at Microsoft

• Breakthrough computer-use agents

• How user interfaces may evolve into a conversational layer that expands traditional UI

• How AI is influencing language, with more people adopting LLM-like phrasing

• The future of communication: silent meetings and thought-like broadcasting

• Embodied AI + robotics: what happens when machines look human?

• What is gained and lost with AI-powered intelligibility?