1、Superagency in the Workplace Empowering people to unlock AIs full potentialJanuary 2025Hannah Mayer Lareina Yee Michael Chui Roger RobertsContents Introduction 2 Chapters:1.An innovation as powerful as the steam engine 52.Employees are ready for AI;now leaders must step up 113.Delivering speed and s

2、afety 184.Embracing bigger ambitions 265.Technology is not the barrier to scale 35 Conclusion:Meeting the AI future 40Acknowledgments 42Methodology 43Glossary 441“Gen AI:A cognitive industrial revolution,”McKinsey,June 7,2024.2“The economic potential of generative AI:The next productivity frontier,”

3、McKinsey,June 14,2023.3 Reid Hoffman and Greg Beato,Superagency:What Could Possibly Go Right with Our AI Future,Authors Equity,January 2025.Artificial intelligence has arrived in the workplace and has the potential to be as transformative as the steam engine was to the 19th-century Industrial Revolu

4、tion.1 With powerful and capable large language models(LLMs)developed by Anthropic,Cohere,Google,Meta,Mistral,OpenAI,and others,we have entered a new information technology era.McKinsey research sizes the long-term AI opportunity at$4.4 trillion in added productivity growth potential from corporate

5、use cases.2Therein lies the challenge:the long-term potential of AI is great,but the short-term returns are unclear.Over the next three years,92 percent of companies plan to increase their AI investments.But while nearly all companies are investing in AI,only 1 percent of leaders call their companie

6、s“mature”on the deployment spectrum,meaning that AI is fully integrated into workflows and drives substantial business outcomes.The big question is how business leaders can deploy capital and steer their organizations closer to AI maturity.This research report,prompted by Reid Hoffmans book Superage