When the first garment-making machines appeared during the Industrial Revolution, panic spread fast. Seamstresses feared for their livelihoods. Society braced for mass unemployment.
But that’s not what happened!
Instead, people adapted. They learned new skills. They moved up the value chain: from stitching to designing, pattern-cutting, and quality creation. Productivity rose. Wages grew. Disposable income expanded.
Forgive me this very simplified picture, but it brings the point across – and one that I personally want to believe in: Innovation wasn’t the end of work. It was the start of transformation.
We’re standing at the similar crossroads today with Agentic AI and Generative AI.
Some roles will disappear. Many more will evolve. Already, we’re seeing entirely new jobs emerge like ‘Manager of Agentic Systems’, guiding and auditing digital co-workers to achieve business outcomes.
But this transformation won’t happen on its own. The C-suite must lead with vision: creating a culture that encourages learning, experimentation, and continuous measurement. It means rethinking KPIs, recognising both human and digital contributions, and enabling employees to build skills in prompting, domain reasoning, and AI collaboration.
At Moterra.ai, we help organisations reskill and adapt through role-based learning and hands-on Agentic AI enablement, helping teams not just use AI, but work alongside it.
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