Managing AI agents as employees is the challenge of 2025, says Goldman Sachs CIO [Video]

This year, artificial intelligence will be dominated by the maturation of AI code as corporate “workers” that can take over corporate processes and be managed just like employees, according to a year-outlook blog post disseminated by investment bank Goldman Sachs featuring its chief information officer, Marco Argenti.

Human and machine resources

“The capabilities of AI models to plan and execute complex, long-running tasks on humans’ behalf will begin to mature,” writes Argenti. “This will create the conditions for companies to eventually ’employ’ and train AI workers to be part of hybrid teams of humans and AIs working together.”

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Argenti predicts that corporate HR offices will have to manage “human and machine resources,” and there may even be AI “layoffs” as programs are replaced by more highly capable versions.

Argenti’s broad prediction echoes comments last weekin the CES keynote by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. Huang said onstage …