Automation

India may avoid the worst of AI-driven white-collar displacement, but only if it builds skills fast enough, IT secretary S. Krishnan says

AI scaled fast in 2025 but not in the ways regulators or institutions expected, with failures across chatbots, newsrooms, courts, policing and deepfake-driven fraud.

Automation advances unevenly across tasks and roles. Understanding the friction factors that slow adoption can help leaders navigate workforce transformation strategically.

Firms are embracing agentic AI at a pace that far exceeds their ability to redesign workflows, governance and talent structures, leaving leadership teams racing to adapt management models built for an earlier era, the global study found

How does agentic AI work? What can it do for your organization? What security issues should be on your radar screen? Catch up on key information from MIT SMR experts.