David Andriashvili, Founder of Solvia, an AI voice-agent stratup in Prague
Text: David Andriashvili; Photo: Archive
I’m David Andriashvili, Founder of Solvia, an AI voice-agent startup in Prague. I moved to the Czech Republic three years ago, and graduated from Park Lane International School this year. Business has fascinated me for as long as I can remember, and what drew me to artificial intelligence wasn’t the immediate commercial opportunity but the realization that we are living through the final years before absolutely everything changes.
When I began studying what the world’s leading AI researchers were actually saying, voice agents stopped looking like mere customer support tools, but rather like the first visible manifestation of the emergence of autonomous intelligence, which will fundamentally change how value is created and distributed in the global economy. These systems can execute tasks autonomously and continuously, without human oversight. Working with voice agents exemplifies this, since they reason through complex customer scenarios, and take action independently while sounding surprisingly human on the phone.
This isn’t the primitive AI of five years ago. This is something qualitatively different, and arriving faster than most people realize.
Within the next five years, we will likely witness Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), which are systems that match or surpass human intelligence in every metric. But here is the question that concerns every leader: what happens to the institutions we’ve built when the fundamental assumption that human labor creates value suddenly stops being true? AGI is likely the final major invention humanity needs to make, because it can subsequently invent everything else. This is not hyperbole, but a straightforward extrapolation of what general intelligence with superhuman speed and scale can accomplish. It is an intelligence capable of improving itself through rapid feedback loops that could concentrate more power than any technology in human history. The defining challenge of our era is to ensure the transition to AGI in a way that strengthens – rather than fractures – social stability, and this isn’t a distant concern. When AGI can perform any white-collar task, such as accounting, legal logic, strategic forecasting, research, at superhuman speed and scale, our existing institutions and notions of work will be tested. Early forecasts, such as those by the World Economic Forum once warned that tens of millions of roles could be displaced by automation. However, today, what we’re witnessing is not yet mass unemployment, but sweeping structural churn in which the very nature of work, income, and agency is being redefined. We’re already seeing tangible shifts in how AI is governed. For example, more than fifty countries have now signed the Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence, that binds themselves to align AI with human rights, democracy, and the rule of law. On the infrastructure front, Europe’s EuroHPC Joint Undertaking is investing in sovereign compute capacity, which includes processor R&D and data center construction to reduce dependence on external cloud powers. For my part, I believe Solvia’s role is not about prescribing institutional behavior, but about providing a proving ground. We aim to build voice agents with inherently inspectable logic, fallback safety modes, and user control, so that adoption happens through trust, not by decree. The success of those systems will show that AI can empower, rather than obscure. Ultimately, the rise of AGI will measure not only our technical capabilities, but our capacity for foresight, as well as shared purpose. Progress will be judged not by what machines can do, but by what humanity chooses to preserve.
