Mike Walsh

Futurist, author, global nomad. Travelling the world to understand the future of work and leadership in the Algorithmic Age.

[Dell Technologies @Dell]

Designing for AI isn't just a technology question, it's also an anthropological one.

@mikewalsh, CEO of Tomorrow and author of The Algorithmic Leader, makes the case that the leaders who will get AI right aren't pure technologists. They're people who understand culture, language, and how intelligence flows through an organization.

The shift is already underway. The question is if your org is designing for it.

[Mike Walsh @mikewalsh]

The most important users of enterprise software are no longer human https://t.co/ufCUj1cb9y

[Mike Walsh @mikewalsh]

The prevailing story about AI and jobs is seductively simple: break work into tasks, measure how many can be automated, and once enough of them are, the job disappears. That logic works well for routine work. But in high-stakes, human-facing roles, especially those performed by agents and advisors, it rests on a fragile assumption: that jobs are just workflows, collections of discrete steps that can be taken apart without changing where value is actually created—or whether it can be created at all. https://t.co/4adb1keqsR

[Mike Walsh @mikewalsh]

If multiple agents collaborate to resolve a customer issue or approve a loan application, does that represent one digital worker or many? The question may sound trivial, but it will soon matter a great deal. Organizations will eventually track digital headcount the same way they track human employees today. https://t.co/ULhARsHLVJ

[Mike Walsh @mikewalsh]

Some companies are genuinely seeing gains from digital labor, but the real opportunity isn’t replacing workers. It’s removing workflow friction so that human judgment is amplified by machines. That’s where real productivity comes from: faster decisions, lower coordination costs, and systems that scale without collapsing. https://t.co/HB38DqJlNe

[Mike Walsh @mikewalsh]

A dangerous new market narrative is spreading through boardrooms and earnings calls: artificial intelligence has made companies so productive that they can slash their workforce and barely notice the difference. Analysts applaud, the stock jumps, and executives describe a future where digital labor replaces the old human-heavy operating model. Unfortunately, the economy is rarely that tidy.
https://t.co/HB38DqJlNe

[Mike Walsh @mikewalsh]

The old world had walls. Stone ramparts and watchtowers marking the boundary between the city and the chaos beyond. But in the modern metropolis the walls dissolved into the city itself. The power grid, the fiber lines, the satellites overhead, the glass towers where millions live stacked in the sky. When drones strike a substation or slam into a residential high rise, they are not breaching the perimeter. They are hitting it. Because in a networked world the walls that once protected the city have become the city. And now we live in a society without a perimeter.

[Mike Walsh @mikewalsh]

The real question is not whether digital labor transforms the economy, but how that transformation is architected: who retains authority, who captures the surplus, and how judgment is redistributed when execution becomes abundant. https://t.co/IUEBWfBcMZ

[Alex Triplett @AlexTriplett]

@"Digital Labor Isn’t Going Away, No Matter What You Call It"https://t.co/iBZHD39BDq on @LinkedIn ⁦@mikewalsh⁩ this was beautifully and thoughtfully written. The AI revolution requires reimagining how to drive to outcomes not retuning inputs

[Eagles Talent @EaglesTalent]

🚀 @mikewalsh reminds us: the future of work is about both tech & human connection.

The future is everywhere—we just need to know where to look.

Great ideas can come from anyone, anywhere.

🔗 https://t.co/quIUSAS49X

#AI #Innovation #FutureOfWork #HumanPotential #MikeWalsh

[Andrew @AndrewNoel1971]

Futurist @mikewalsh returns to #TheAIForecast to explore how AI agents are becoming a new kind of digital workforce and what this means for business, creativity, and society. He also shares insights from his talk at #EVOLVE25: https://t.co/1NK771iTcU https://t.co/SPs3rvVkeu

[Cloudera @cloudera]

The anticipation for our #EVOLVE25 New York City event is building! Kicking off the programming is futurist @mikewalsh to discuss how leaders need new ways of thinking to reinvent organizations in the era of machine intelligence.

Join Mike and other data enthusiasts to learn how to make your data and AI dreams a reality: https://t.co/vjqxXMZ3R2

[Eagles Talent @EaglesTalent]

🌍 Futurist @mikewalsh: The models that change the world are the ones that understand it.
AI + data aren’t enough — we must ask bigger questions 💡

🔗 https://t.co/quIUSAS49X

#MikeWalsh #Dartmouth #FutureOfWork #DigitalTransformation #AI #FutureofAI #Eagle #X #Trending #Future

[Mary O'Carroll @maryshenocarro1]

“This is an apocalyptic moment for legal... Legal is the canary in the coal mine for all professional services."
In this episode, I sit down with futurist @mikewalsh to talk about the future of the legal industry, and why the urgent need to evolve keeps me up at night.

[Mike Walsh @mikewalsh]

@Noahpinion I think you are right, although in my view what drove the cyberpunk acceleration was the pandemic and the technological artefacts that followed in it’s wake - https://t.co/bqNwExmkpE

[Cloudera @cloudera]

AI is evolving—from tools that assist to agents that act.

On a recent episode of #TheAIForecast, futurist expert @mikewalsh noted how this shift is accelerating the fifth industrial revolution, powered by intelligent systems that drive decisions, automate workflows, and deliver outcomes at scale.

Mike shares how the value of AI agents falls into two camps — back office and front office: https://t.co/AbRW76Owt2