Four Ways to Successfully Manage an AI Agent

Last month, a friend told me that by the end of the year, his startup will have seven employees and more than 20 AI agents. He has led several previous successful organizations and has a reputation as a wonderful people manager. Yet he felt unmoored imagining how to maintain a tightly cohesive team in an organization where AI will have a large presence. 

He’s not alone in what he’s feeling. When we delegate increasingly significant tasks to artificial intelligence agents, or welcome their presence and input in team channels, we allow them, knowingly or not, to profoundly influence our decision-making and relationships at work. We need a way to steer that wisely. 

The good news is that we can manage AI as a powerful collaborator without giving it the status—or indeed, the dignity—of a human teammate. In fact, getting productive outcomes from AI at work depends on finding this new way forward: one in which the presence of technology is intentionally harnessed to unlock the potential of our human colleagues. 

Please select this link to read the complete article from Fast Company.