Companies strive for the introduction AI agent In your workflow at A Faster clip. But Workers are afraid that this technical revolution can actually lead to its own professional deathAnd a new study shows that you have a good reason to worry.
Around 87% of the managing directors believe that AI agents will displace employees unless companies are ready for this Upskill your employeesAccording to the management consultancy KPMGS, the latest Ai Quarterly Pulse Survey. This includes providing additional training, creating new goals or even changing your roles.
“Our customers no longer ask whether AI will change their business, ask them” how quickly it can be used, “notes Todd Lohr, head of the ecosystems at KPMG.” This is not just about the introduction of technologies, but also a fundamental business transformation that requires a reinterpretation how the work is done and how it is measured. ”
According to the report, the use of AI agents in organizations has tripled since the fourth quarter of last year. Around 82% of the managing directors believe that KI agents will become valuable participants next year, and the same number believes that these agents will change the fully Business landscape In the next two years.
The CEOs recently brave that Ai could lead to slim human workforce. The CEO of Anthropic Said early this year This AI could eliminate half of the entry roles. The CEO of the Language Learning App Duolingo telling employees In April they could only hire a new person if they have proven for the first time that the task could not be done with AI. And meta recently announced Plans to replace up to 90% of his human employees who examine the privacy of the platform and the social risks by AI.
Upskilling employees may be said more easily than done. While two thirds of the managers expect employees to update their AI skills, only a third say that the companies they work for for them Research The ADECCO group from talent advice. A separate study The management consultancy Oliver Wyman found that 79% of employees want AI training, but only 57% say that such an upsky efforts were inadequate.
“As an employer, we have the responsibility to prepare current and future workers for a new era of work,” writes Edwige Sacco, head of the workforce at KPMG. “Investments in human change management, modern learning methods, proactive upsky and new models for human-AI collaboration are of essential importance for the development of the long-term return for AI investments.”
Brit Morse
Brit.morse@fortune.com
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