Just two months after its launch in late 2022, ChatGPT reached 100 million monthly active users. Along with other advanced language models, it quickly began encroaching on territory traditionally exempt from automation, such as tasks requiring creativity, intuition, and decision-making.

So, what does this mean for managerial work? We predict that the blend of artificial intelligence (AI) and human thought will remain indispensable—at least for now—but with an unexpected twist. Far from being limited to grunt work, AI will be entrusted with some of the more creative and intuitive components of decision-making, tasks viewed as fundamentally human. It won’t replace managerial work but rather reshape it.

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