Most executives believe that the big challenge in adopting agentic AI is figuring out how to adapt to a new and important technology. But in fact it’s primarily about managing work. Executives have been slow to recognize this in part because of AI’s still nascent capabilities. According to a recently published and widely cited paper by Anthropic’s head economist, Peter McCrory, and his colleague, Maxim Massenkoff, a yawning gap exists between what AI can theoretically do and how it is actually deployed, even in areas undergoing profound transformation. Most estimates suggest that 94% of the tasks in computer- and math-related occupations, for example, are displaceable by generative AI, but the authors write that Anthropic’s current offerings only cover a third of those tasks.

Full opinion : Most executives are still stuck in the woods regarding adoption of agentic AI.