“I trust that our ecosystem will make this partnership between humans and technology work. Indeed, there is a super-accelerated development from a technological standpoint, and I believe there is fear in certain contexts. We have tried within the organization not to let this fear emerge.

I believe it has already been 2–3 years since we started offering colleagues AI courses up to a certain level. We are now entering a more accelerated phase of upskilling in which Accenture has launched a global Agentic AI program with a very ambitious goal to reach almost all 700,000 employees around the world,” said Iuliana Horsia, HR Partner Lead, Accenture Romania, during the People Empowering Business Forum organized by The Diplomat-Bucharest.

Key statements:

• I think we need to be careful about what is happening and be able to move with agility as an organization, which might be more or less easy depending on organizational culture and other aspects.
• The World Economic Forum report mentions that tens of millions of jobs will disappear due to artificial intelligence, yet a higher number of jobs will be created to manage AI and this new paradigm and new relationship between humans and technology.
• The future will be very much about co-learning, meaning a reciprocal learning process in which we learn from AI, AI learns from us, and through this process of problem-solving, mutual feedback, and adaptability, we can keep things in continuous evolution.
• A CEO recently said that this is most likely the last generation of CEOs who will lead organizations composed only of humans. I believe the key to success will be to maintain this human connection.
• We are working quite a lot in psychological safety. We must maintain communication between us as humans, even if it will not always be face-to-face and will happen remotely, through various tools.