NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang envisions a future where every employee acts as a manager overseeing AI agents, with companies potentially having millions of AI agents alongside human workers.
The Vision:
- Every knowledge worker becomes a “manager” of AI agents
- Companies scale from thousands of employees to millions of agents
- Human role shifts from “doing” to “directing”
- Organizational charts include both humans and AI
What This Looks Like in Practice:
- Marketing manager: Oversees 50 AI agents handling campaigns, analytics, content
- Software lead: Directs AI agents writing, testing, deploying code
- Sales rep: Manages AI agents qualifying leads, scheduling, follow-ups
- Executive: Orchestrates agent teams across functions
The Skills Shift:
Success requires:
- Prompt engineering and agent direction
- Quality control and output validation
- Strategic thinking AI can’t replicate
- Human judgment for edge cases
- Relationship building and trust
The Timeline:
Microsoft’s approach: rather than simply automating tasks, redesigning work processes to fully integrate AI into day-to-day operations. Independent AI agents already handle meetings, document editing, and routine communications autonomously.
This is part of a comprehensive analysis of 20+ AI business trends for 2026. Read the full analysis on The Business Engineer.









