UiPath's Dines: not hiring juniors is a mistake

This article was published on July 8, 2026 Cutting junior hiring is a mistake, UiPath chief executive Daniel Dines told the Raise Summit in Paris. He and Louis Dreyfus Company's Guy-Laurent Arpino argued the future of enterprise AI still runs on people, not models. At the Raise summit in Paris, two enterprise leaders asked why AI agents keep stalling in pilots. Their fix starts with people, not models. Most enterprises stall. Their AI agents run in pilots and never reach production. That was the blunt diagnosis from Daniel Dines, chief executive of UiPath. He spoke at the RAISE CxO Summit in Paris this week. Dines took aim at the industry’s hype. The promise of a “country of geniuses” that behaves like a human employee does real harm, he argued. He called it “a big disservice to the entire AI industry”. You cannot hire an AI, hand it a laptop, plug it into your systems, and expect it to replace everyone. He offered a cooler forecast. “AI is not going to become human-like,” he said. It may reach a form of AGI, but it will not think or learn the way people do. So enterprises need a new division of labour. Dines framed it as a simple triad: AI proposes, humans decide, and automation e

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