Commentary: AI Expands Talent Management Rather Than Ending It
Global – October 17, 2026 -- Talent management is not disappearing under AI pressure. According to a new commentary, it is shifting from administering separate HR processes to managing the capabilities a business needs, with human and AI capabilities now handled side by side.
Separate talent processes are giving way to capability management
The author argues that talent management was long built around independent processes: performance management, succession, learning and workforce planning. Technology mirrored that structure, and organizations bought systems and modules to automate each activity.
The business, however, does not experience talent that way. A capability gap may call for training, but it may equally call for a hire, an internal move, a redesigned job or longer-term development. The commentary adds a fifth option: some of the work may be better performed or augmented by AI.