Gartner predicts 40% of AI agent projects will fail by 2027—but the survivors are transforming from helpers into digital colleagues that need management just like human employees.

The future belongs to HR leaders willing to rethink their role and their relationship with technology in these key ways, according to speakers at HR Tech 2025.

With AI advancing at a lightning pace, Skillsoft's Mark Onisk highlights the need for HR to reinvent roles, skills and workplace culture.

For Larissa Murmann of Unilever, AI is not a tool to shrink the workforce; it is the key to safeguarding it, if leaders embrace a growth mindset.