Opinion | When Your Technical Skills Are Eclipsed, Your Humanity Will Matter More Than Ever
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Opinion | When Your Technical Skills Are Eclipsed, Your Humanity Will Matter More Than Ever
- “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 EverRoy added
As the workforce increasingly evolves from muscle to mental, and rote tasks are increasingly handled by robots or computers, humans will be increasingly required for our emotional intelligence and empathy.
from The Boy Crisis by John Gray PhD
Philip Soriano added
Skills you need in the age of AI: You’ll need critical thinking skills and emotional intelligence. Some technical skills e.g. understand the AI capabilities, some data literacy, cyber threats etc.
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But mostly, you’ll need truly human soft skills:
- ability to make complex decisions
- ability to have creative problem solving
All skills that will enableJohann Van Tonder added
- The important training is not STEM, coding or how AI works. (The market will take care of that.) It’s about how people work—and how businesses so often make money by manipulating people to buy things they might not need. Instead, people can learn how to manipulate themselves .
Rather than compete with computers, people need to learn how to use and m... See morefrom Don’t Fuss About Training AIs. Train Our Kids by Esther Dyson
Britt Gage added
- those with verbal talent are going to have a more important skill set to offer the world in the coming decades, as the AI revolution takes hold—I think that those who are able to give expression to and speak to the deepest desires of the human heart will be the voices the world needs most.
from A Bull Market in the Humanities
rob hardy added
As the two large technology trends of our era combine, as technology takes over more of our work while simultaneously changing us and the way we relate to one another, the people who master the human abilities that are fading all around us will be the most valuable people in our world.
from Humans Are Underrated - Geoff Colvin by Geoff Colvin
sari added
- As workers increasingly use gen AI to tackle more repetitive tasks, the human-centric skills of critical thinking and decision making will become ever more important.
from The human side of generative AI: Creating a path to productivity by Aaron De Smet
Laura Pike Seeley added
- This isn’t to say the digital won’t remain, or even that it won’t remain the primary medium. Rather, I think there are going to be more efforts to make the digital experience more human, to shift our relationships with it. Some say AI threatens this, I say it only reinforces it: nobody, really, likes AI, and our general distaste for it is going to ... See more
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