Harvard Business Review December 19, 2025
For much of its history, corporate automation adoption has been a slow, incremental process. That steady march is now poised to become a transformative leap. We are at the inflection point when the global economy transitions from AI-assisted to AI-native. We won’t just adopt new tools; we’ll build a new economic reality: the AI economy.
Autonomous AI agents—entities with the ability to reason, act, and remember—will define this new era. We’ll delegate key tasks to these agents, from triaging alerts in the security operations center (SOC) to building financial models for corporate strategy.
For leaders, a central question in 2026 is how to govern and secure a new multi-hybrid workforce where machines and agents already outnumber human employees by an...
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