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Making AI work for workers

Employees are ready for AI. How can their leaders help them unleash new levels of creativity and productivity?

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Playing catch-up

Workers are already on board with gen AI, but many leaders aren’t keeping pace. Business leaders who can build on this momentum face a significant opportunity.
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Report
Superagency in the workplace: Empowering people to unlock AI’s full potential

From ‘doomer’ to ‘zoomer’

But not all employees are embracing gen AI equally. Identifying four archetypes of employee sentiment can help companies understand where encouragement might be needed.
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Article
Understanding AI sentiments and encouraging experimentation

Tipping the scales

A majority of respondents feel their organizations aren’t following through on enough gen AI adoption and scaling practices, though larger companies are progressing more than smaller ones.
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Survey
The state of AI: How organizations are rewiring to capture value

AI and the ‘persona metamorphosis’

As workers engage with AI in the workplace, there is an opportunity for employees to augment their work personas to thrive in this new era of AI.
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Podcast
Keeping artificial intelligence real

Your virtual coworker

Employees who use knowledge-based AI tools are approaching the next frontier of gen AI: AI agents. These virtual coworkers can help execute complex workflows across a digital world.
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Article - McKinsey Quarterly
Why agents are the next frontier of generative AI

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This edition was edited by Drew Holzfeind and Kanika Punwani, with design and data visualization by Jonathon Rivait, Michael Goesele, and Stephen Landau and web production by Katrina Parker.
Abstract image of colorful digital lines coming down and spreading forward like a highway.
Report
Superagency in the workplace: Empowering people to unlock AI’s full potential
An abstract image of a broad multicolored 3D brush stroke curving forward.
Article
Understanding AI sentiments and encouraging experimentation
Delicate blue and purple tendrils constantly expanding. These tendrils bear a resemblance to neurons, with luminous buds at their tips.
Survey
The state of AI: How organizations are rewiring to capture value
A hand-drawn illustration of Navrina Singh, smiling and wearing a ruffle collared blouse and suit jacket. The drawing features precise lines and subtle shading, using black and white tones for her face and blues for her attire.
Podcast
Keeping artificial intelligence real
Image of a hand tracing a light circle in the air
Article - McKinsey Quarterly
Why agents are the next frontier of generative AI