DESIGNING THE HYBRID WORKFORCE: An Executive Navigation Guide to Governing Humans and Agents Together (Mastering AI Risk)

Somewhere in your organisation, AI agents are acting on your behalf.

They are making decisions, executing workflows, and producing outputs that carry institutional authority — as if a senior executive had personally authorised each one. Your board is accountable for that. Most boards do not yet know how to govern it.

Designing the Hybrid Workforce is the navigation guide that changes that.

Written specifically for supervisory and non-executive board members, this book introduces the frameworks, the questions, and the governance architecture needed to oversee a workforce that is no longer entirely human. The Workforce Composition Matrix shows you where your tasks sit and where they are heading. The seven named migration routes show you how tasks move between human and agent control — and what governance each transition requires. The accountability waterfall shows you exactly where responsibility sits when something goes wrong.

This is not a technology book. It does not require technical expertise. It requires the willingness to take a genuinely new governance challenge seriously — before the regulator, the incident, or the board review forces the conversation.

Peter van Tol has spent twenty years on every side of this problem: as model builder, validator, independent advisor, and regulatory counterpart. This is Volume 3 in the Mastering AI Risk series.

Volume 1: Mastering AI Model Risk
Volume 2: Mastering Agentic AI Risk