What Is a Manager For in the Age of AI?
As AI transforms the workplace, the role of managers is evolving beyond coordination, information gathering, and administrative tasks. What parts of management will remain uniquely human? By HKW Editorial Team | September 9, 2026 | 12.00 min read | Follow on BlueSky Introduction For decades, management was partly built around information. Managers collected updates. They monitored performance. They coordinated people. They summarized information for executives. They assigned tasks. They followed deadlines. They produced reports. They made recommendations. Artificial intelligence is increasingly capable of doing many of these things. It can summarize a project overnight. It can identify patterns in performance data. It can draft reports, monitor workflows, surface risks, recommend actions and increasingly execute multi-step tasks. That creates a more interesting question than “Will AI replace managers?” What happens when some of the wor...