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Why AI hasn't disrupted your job yet—and what comes next
David M. Rothschild, Jake M. Hofman, Markus Mobius, Brendan Lucier, Eleanor Dillon, Daniel G. Goldstein, Nicole Immorlica, Aleksandrs Slivkins
May 28, 2026
AI's biggest impact won't come from faster tools—it'll come when organizations redesign entire workflows around machine judgment, automated machine-to-machine transactions, and continuous auditing. That transition requires trust infrastructure, interoperable data, and economic incentives favoring system-wide change over incremental gains. Without deliberate choices by leaders now, the agentic future defaults to outcomes nobody chose.
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