It might sound heretical to HR purists, but let’s face it: in the age of agentic AI, where digital agents assist, reason and act, perhaps the time has come to merge the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) role into the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) mandate. India Inc should actively consider this merger. When the workforce morphs into a blend of humans and intelligent agents, the talent strategy and technology strategy are inseparable. Then, who better to lead both than the tech executive who already speaks binary?

Agentic AI isn’t your humdrum chatbot anymore: it’s autonomous decision-making algorithm that lives in workflows, interacts with humans and other agents, and makes things happen. As Brian Solis notes in “The Agentic Playbook,” IT becomes the HR of AI agents – recruiting, onbo

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