Aneesh Raman • Opinion | When Your Technical Skills Are Eclipsed, Your Humanity Will Matter More Than Ever

Geoff Colvin's book, written back in 2015, offers a lot of good advice here. As a senior editor of Fortune, he spoke to business leaders, military commanders, leading medical facilities, and of course technologists to understand what the implications of accelerating AI advancements would mean for the next generation. He was deeply concerned with ho... See more

Yet since we have no idea what the world and the job market will look like in 2050, we don’t really know what particular skills people will need. We might invest a lot of effort teaching kids how to write in C++ or speak Chinese, only to discover that by 2050 AI can code software far better than humans, and a new Google Translate app will enable yo

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“In the past, jobs were about muscles. Now they’re about brains, but in the future, they’ll be about the heart.”

from Opinion | When Your Technical Skills Are Eclipsed, Your Humanity Will Matter More Than Ever

AI is the newest terrain in a decades-long race to eliminate all forms of cognitive resistance

What that means, practically speaking, is that jobs that tap into our social desires—bartenders, hair stylists, flight attendants, mental health workers—will be hard to automate. And people who are skilled at creating social and emotional experiences will be better positioned for the future than people whose primary skill is making or doing things ... See more