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Publication Date: 2025-12-21 17:15:00
Six months until the upheaval, six years until the new normal, says a Microsoft manager. When AI stops helping and starts deciding, who keeps the keys?
Charles Lamanna, the managing director of Copilot at Microsoft, says the next wave of AI will not only help, but also execute. Testing in finance, customer support, logistics, and internal operations already allows agents to plug into tools and work from start to finish. Initial successes are reflected in IDC data and Microsoft’s Work Trends Index 2025. If this momentum continues, job descriptions and organizational charts will be next in line, with security, governance and zero trust setting the boundaries. Here’s how the change is unfolding inside and what it could mean in the coming years.
The increasing change in AI from assistance to autonomy
What if the tools we use every day no longer just support us, but complete entire tasks independently? According to Charles Lamanna, an executive with Microsoft’s Copilot initiative, this shift is already happening in…
