AI and the Rise of Judgement Over Technical Skill

Until the age of AI, being more productive was the best way to stand out at work. But now, as bots and algorithms supplant mundane and repetitive labor in the workplace, the benefits of human labor will shift to the skills and capabilities that are uniquely human . Chief among them: creativity. Think compelling ways to visualize data, better ways t... See more

That strategy piece, she argues, is at the heart of what makes creative work valuable. "AI is shifting workplace value toward decision-making, judgment, and trust. It’s no longer just about what you can do quickly as it’s about how well you can steer, question, and guide systems that now do the ‘doing,’” she says.

Let’s assume that we will soon live in a world in which intelligence - narrowly defined - is cheap. In this world, any job that primarily depends on the manipulation of information - on a knowledge of rules, on conventional uses of language, on data-based analysis - comes under threat. Which qualities and attributes become relatively more valuable?... See more

Judgment becomes more valuable in a world of frictionless execution. This is why misplaced prophecies about radiologists losing their jobs and becoming redundant don’t actually play out. Radiologists who were paid to examine scans and identify anomalies realized they had a new role when AI could identify tumors betters than them. Their role had shi... See more