Managing AI Agents As Employees Is the Challenge of 2025, Says Goldman Sachs CIO

An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: This year, artificial intelligence will be dominated by the maturation of AI code as corporate 'workers' that can take over corporate processes and be managed just like employees, according to a year-outlook blog post disseminated by investment bank Goldman Sachs featuring its chief information officer, Marco Argenti. 'The capabilities of AI models to plan and execute complex, long-running tasks on humans' behalf will begin to mature,' writes Argenti. 'This will create the conditions for companies to eventually 'employ' and train AI workers to be part of hybrid teams of humans and AIs working together.'

'There's a great opportunity for capital to move towards the application layer, the toolset layer,' says Goldman Sachs CIO Marco Argenti. 'I think we will see that shift happening, most likely as early as next year.' Argenti predicts that corporate HR offices will have to manage 'human and machine resources,' and there may even be AI 'layoffs' as programs are replaced by more highly capable versions.

Among other predictions offered by Argenti is that the most-capable AI models will be like PhD graduates -- so-called expert AI systems that have 'industry-specific knowledge' for finance, medicine, etc. 'The intersection of LLMs and robotics will increasingly bring AI into, and enable it to experience, the physical world, which will help enable reasoning capabilities for AI,' he writes. Argenti sees 'responsible AI' increasing in importance as a board-room priority in 2025, and, in something of a repeat of last year's predictions, he expects that the largest generative AI models -- the 'frontier' models of OpenAI and others -- will become the province of only a handful of institutions with budgets large enough to pursue their enormous training costs. That is the 'Formula One' version of AI, where the 'engines' of AI are made by a handful of powerful providers. Everyone else will work on smaller-model development, Argenti predicts. Further reading: Nvidia's Huang Says That IT Will 'Become the HR of AI Agents'

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