A new study on the rise of agentic artificial intelligence reveals that 82 percent of executives now view agentic AI more as a coworker than a tool, marking a shift in how organisations particularly in Africa, are reimagining the role of AI in the workplace.
The report, The Emerging Agentic Enterprise, published by MIT Sloan Management Review and the Boston Consulting Group and based on a survey of 2,102 executives across 116 countries, disclosed that unlike traditional and generative AI, agentic AI systems are more than just tools to be operated or assistants waiting for instructions. Increasingly, they behave like autonomous teammates, capable of executing multistep processes and adapting as they go.
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