Opinion | When Your Technical Skills Are Eclipsed, Your Huma...

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

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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

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“Technical and data skills that have been highly sought after for decades appear to be among the most exposed to advances in artificial intelligence.” They found that AI will replace 96% of a software engineer’s current skills.

What did these researchers find to be the most durable skills for the next era of work? The ones we’ve long derided as “sof... See more

Joe Lazer (Lazauskas) • Why Storytelling Will Be the Super Skill of the AI Age

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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.

But mostly, you’ll need truly human soft skills:
- ability to make complex decisions
- ability to have creative problem solving
All skills that will enable

Johann Van Tonder 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.

Geoff Colvin • Humans Are Underrated - 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.

Aaron De Smet • The human side of generative AI: Creating a path to productivity

Laura Pike Seeley 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.

John Gray PhD • The Boy Crisis

Philip Soriano added

Until now, skills have been a major differentiator for humanity. However, in the age of AI, taste will become more important than skills as much of skill-based work and productivity is offloaded to compute. Taste seems more scarce these days, and increasingly differentiating in the age of AI. This assertion makes me think about the development of t... See more

Scott Belsky • The Era of Abstraction & New Creative Tensions

Elena and 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.

A Bull Market in the Humanities

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