Will AI replace Agents and Business Managers of Artists, Performers, and Athletes?
Management · US · AI² Index
Why this score
AI tools are already automating contract comparison, scheduling coordination, and market-rate research that agents and business managers perform daily for their clients. However, the core of this role — building trust-based relationships, reading a room during high-stakes negotiations, and exercising fiduciary judgment on behalf of talent — remains deeply resistant to automation. Regulatory requirements around fiduciary duty, SAG-AFTRA and union rules, and state talent agency licensing laws actively mandate human accountability. The real question is whether you'll be the agent who uses AI to represent more clients more effectively, or the one whose back-office value proposition gets absorbed by a platform.
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