5 Minutes into the Future: The Imminent Job Avalanche

Huge job losses could result in unstabilizing the societies we live in.

I would urge employers to use AI talent-matching platforms to identify employees with transferable skills who can transition into new or emerging roles within the company, which will reduce recruitment costs at the same time. 

 We should also equip employees in roles susceptible to automation with entirely new capabilities. Examples are: 

● The ability to interpret and leverage data for decision-making, 

● Designing new products and new solutions alongside machines.

● Also: there is a global shortage of AI specialists, data scientists, and cybersecurity experts. 

● Jobs could also be restructured around higher-value activities such as strategy, innovation, and relationship building. 

 We have to understand that intelligence does not equal betterness. As AI agents take on more routine and automatable tasks, the human workforce will be freed up for more innovative ways to use their human skills in your company. Empathetic leadership as a skill will become more and more important as enterprises start adopting AI technology. Unique human skills requiring emotional intelligence can now come to the fore, such as empathy and collaboration, as well as critical thinking and strategic oversight. 

 The most valuable human skills will be those that AI cannot replicate and 

maybe the best way to look at future jobs where humans might still be better than AI, is to look at what they are NOT good at: 

 ● If the job is not purely cognitive it will be protected in the short to medium term.

 ● Social and emotional skills alongside motor skills. For now they still cannot really move around. So physical dexterity might be a good place to look at. (Who wants to watch a robot dance, or play rugby or any other sport?)

● Human spirit and soul, love joy and grief, human touch and sensations, true empathy, true creativity, deep science, understanding pain and suffering. 

● Other skills they also are not good at are: judgement, good planning, cannot see the future far ahead, does not have permanent memory or true creativity. They do not understand the world that humans live in as humans do. 

In closing

Good future leadership will cultivate human emotions and place a bigger focus on the human element than before and at the same time fostering good mental health and a sense of well being in the workplace and society as a whole.

 In the words of Professor Yoshua Bengio - a world-leading Canadian computer scientist, a key pioneer in deep learning, and a recipient of the prestigious Turing Award (the "Nobel of Computing”) also known for his groundbreaking work in neural networks, language models, and generative AI:

 “Work on the beautiful human being that you can become. That part of ourselves will persist, even if machines can do most of the jobs. The part of us that loves. The human touch is going to have more and more value as the other skills are becoming more automated. I would want a human hand to hold on to when I am in hospital suffering or dying.”