The upcoming AI revolution is going to change the nature of work, and experts believe that it’ll end up reorganizing whole departments at the workplace.
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang has said that the IT Department of every company of the future will essentially be an HR Department that trains AI agents. “The IT department of every company is going to be the HR department of AI agents in the future,” he said at a conference. “Today (IT Departments) manage and maintain a bunch of software from the IT industry. In the future they will maintain, nurture and onboard and improve a whole bunch of digital agents and provision them to the companies to use. Your IT department is going to become kind of like AI-agent HR,” he said smiling.
Huang seemed to be saying that given how AI can now code better than most humans, companies of the future will not require a dedicated IT department. It’ll instead be replaced by an “HR” department that’ll look after AI agents who’ll replace the human workers. This HR department will onboard and nurture the AI agents who’ll end up replacing human IT workers. Jensen Huang didn’t specify whether this HR department will be made of humans or AI agents themselves, but it might presumably be manned by a mix of both.
Huang’s proclamation might sound alarming — especially for IT professionals — but there are signs that AI could take over most coding jobs. OpenAI’s o3 model has obtained a rank of 175 on Competition Code, which means that’s it’s better than all but 174 human coders at this point. The model also scored 96 percent on a feeder test for the US team for the International Mathematics Olympiad, and also an impressive 25 percent on Research Math, which is a test with extremely hard questions that only top mathematicians can solve. Tools like Cursor are integrating AI right into IDEs, and allowing people to simply prompt in English and get working code in programming languages, and companies like Devin are creating AI agents that double up as software professionals. And if these trends continue, as Jensen Huang says, IT departments of the future could just be “HR departments” tasked with managing these different AIs to get the results that companies want.