According to CIO magazine and Cisco IT leadership, the CIO job description is being rewritten as AI agents take over the interface layer and connect directly to data sources. Traditional CIO skills—UX fluency, application integration, build-versus-buy judgment—are giving way to questions of AI agent authority and governance. Cisco CIO Thimaya Subaiya said the ideal CIO candidate today might not have a traditional IT background, and he has split the company's AI leadership into a separate function reporting alongside traditional IT.
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