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McKinsey CEO Bob Sternfels has confirmed the firm operates 25,000 AI agents working alongside its 40,000 human employees, growing from just 3,000 agents 18 months ago. The deployment has saved 1.5 million hours of work in a single year and prompted McKinsey to introduce an AI collaboration test as a formal stage in its graduate hiring process. The announcement signals that agentic AI has moved from competitive advantage to operational standard at the world's largest management consultancy.