I got called by an AI at a conference
In the future, we'll be getting calls from AI voice agents, that we thought is real.
Last year, I was at a conference (Svolution Digital Summit) when my phone rang.
I had just sat in on a talk by Roger Hamilton. Half-processing, half-skeptical about what he had just presented. Felt like a whole woo-woo talk, honestly.
My phone rang. I picked up.
"Hello, this is XYZ, calling on behalf of Roger Hamilton, with Genius Group. Thanks for listening to Roger. He would like to invite you to... Would you be coming to the meet-up..."
An AI voice agent had just called me. Can't remember the name, but she was asking if I'd like to come to a closed-door meet-up running parallel with the conference.
I said no.
She thanked me politely and hung up.
I just stood there thinking – wow, this is kinda cool.
Not because the voice agent was perfect. There was a slight delay between my answers and the agent's response. Cool, because Roger, was still in the room. And his voice agent was already working through everyone who attended, one by one, asking a simple yes or no.
Tha's when I realized: when used right, AI voice agents can buy back time, while you're busy doing CEO or founder stuff.
I said no because I didn't resonate with what Roger was sharing. But if it were someone else I wanted to engage with – would I have said yes? High chance.
AI voice agents aren't something new. I recently sat down with King Quah of Saltycustoms, who is deploying voice agents for businesses that rely heavily on outbound calls. We even did a live demo on camera.
See how voice agents work at Underdog AI Con
Malaysians are generally wary of phone calls, even from real human operators. But when it's transparent, and done correctly, AI voice agents can be serious leverage for phone-heavy businesses: insurance, property, sales.
King Quah is showing exactly how this works, behind-the-scenes, at Underdog AI Con on 29 April. He'll break down the strategies that make voice agents work.