Goldman Sachs believes employees need to develop certain skills as companies increasingly adopt AI tools to boost productivity while lowering costs.
In a new Bloomberg interview, Goldman CIO Marco Argenti says employees must now function as AI agent orchestrators, with skills similar to managing a team of humans.
“So I think in this day and age, almost nobody is an individual contributor, really. Because when you’re working with agents, you need to have at least three fundamental characteristics. One is that you need to be able to explain what you want to get done. The second one is that you need to be able to delegate work.
Guess what? Because you’re going to have multiple agents. One is specialized, for example, in doing DCF (discounted cash flow) calculations, and one is specialized in doing research, so you need to be
able to break down the work into chunks that can be executed in parallel in some way.
And then three, you need to have the ability to supervise. You need to actually look at the output and say, ‘Okay, I’m good with this.'”
According to Argenti, the traditional management skills are now becoming universal, with Goldman itself shifting its hiring priorities toward applicants with orchestration capabilities.
“I’ll go back. It turns out that those three things, i.e., explain, delegate and supervise, are the 101 of managers. Managers need to have those three. Otherwise, they can’t manage a team. And so AI is turning everybody a little bit into a manager. And those are kind of the skills that we are actually looking for, for people who are going to have agency on tools that, at some point, are going to be even more proficient and specialized than they are.”
But the Goldman CIO warns that not everyone will adapt at the same pace to the transition.
“And so the most important thing is really the ability to ideate, to explain, to delegate, and then to really know what good looks like. And I think that is a big change. And I don’t think everybody is going to actually rapidly go through that.”
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