Recent news on the Artificial Intelligence front has centered around agentic AI models.
Essentially, agentic AI can better understand the context and operate multi-step processes in order to achieve more complex goals. Agentic AI can plan for the next iterative step to achieve a goal and can do more than simply translate data into knowledge. It can translate knowledge into action.
The list of task-oriented jobs that could be replaced by sophisticated agentic AI models appears long: administrative assistants, data entry, software engineers, phonathon callers, for example.
But I’m not sure that this is the deeper impact of agentic AI models in the workplace.
I wonder far more about the people today who occupy leadership and management positions and use the bulk of their time micro-managing (or even doing) the work of the people who report to them.
The future of the best human work is creative, expansive, emotionally intelligent, big picture goal setting, engaging, inviting, inspiring, and empathic. It’s work that takes time and consistency and grit. It’s work that isn’t always easy.
Just as its always been.
