Agents, robots, and us: Skill partnerships in the age of AI — from mckinsey.com by Lareina Yee, Anu Madgavkar, Sven Smit, Alexis Krivkovich, Michael Chui, María Jesús Ramírez, and Diego Castresana
AI is expanding the productivity frontier. Realizing its benefits requires new skills and rethinking how people work together with intelligent machines.
At a glance
- Work in the future will be a partnership between people, agents, and robots—all powered by AI. …
- Most human skills will endure, though they will be applied differently. …
- Our new Skill Change Index shows which skills will be most and least exposed to automation in the next five years….
- Demand for AI fluency—the ability to use and manage AI tools—has grown sevenfold in two years…
- By 2030, about $2.9 trillion of economic value could be unlocked in the United States…
Also related/see:
- The state of AI in 2025: Agents, innovation, and transformation — from mckinsey.com
Almost all survey respondents say their organizations are using AI, and many have begun to use AI agents. But most are still in the early stages of scaling AI and capturing enterprise-level value.
State of AI: December 2025 newsletter — from nathanbenaich.substack.com by Nathan Benaich
What you’ve got to know in AI from the last 4 weeks.
Welcome to the latest issue of the State of AI, an editorialized newsletter that covers the key developments in AI policy, research, industry, and start-ups over the last month.