Will AI replace executive assistants?
The question comes up often: if artificial intelligence can draft an email, summarise a meeting, prepare an agenda or sort information, what will remain of the executive assistant’s role?
What can be automated
Some repetitive tasks can already be accelerated: drafting meeting notes, rewriting text, documentary research, organising information or preparing first versions of messages and documents.
What becomes more valuable
Understanding context, building trust, using tact, coordinating people with different priorities and anticipating needs are much harder to reduce to a set of instructions. As tools become more capable, human judgement becomes even more visible.
A profession that is changing
The challenge is probably not to choose between people and AI. It is to delegate to machines what they do well so that more time can be spent on work where experience, relationships and decision-making truly matter.
In my view, the executive assistant of tomorrow does not disappear: the role increasingly becomes one of orchestrating information, tools and priorities.