The Curious Advantage Podcast The Future of Work, Frontier Firms, Agent Bosses, AI & 2025 Work Trend Index with Alexia Cambon (FBF)
Jan 23, 2026
Alexia Cambon, Senior Director of Research at Microsoft who leads work and AI productivity research, discusses how AI is reshaping work. She outlines Frontier Firms, Intelligence on Tap, and the rise of agent bosses. Short scenes explore hybrid human-agent teams, new organization models, and how people manage many AI agents. Practical steps for building agent-savvy organizations are highlighted.
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Intelligence On Tap Rewires Organizations
- Companies will increasingly run on “intelligence on tap” that supplements human expertise with AI agents.
- This changes how organizations access, delegate, and structure work around knowledge and expertise.
Employees Become Agent CEOs
- Knowledge work will shift from information consumption to intelligence orchestration.
- Every employee will need to act like the CEO of their own agentic startup to delegate and manage agents.
AI Adds Net‑New Capabilities
- AI contributes unique capabilities—24/7 availability, massive computation, and rapid ideation—that humans shouldn't or can't provide.
- These net-new capabilities make AI complementary rather than purely substitutional.
