6 skills everyone needs in the AI era

How to maintain your edge—and your humanity—as AI redefines the workplace.

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Eighteen months ago, most business leaders were still debating whether AI could write a convincingly human-sounding email without hallucinating. Today, artificial intelligence systems are managing codebases, conducting research, screening contracts, and operating as autonomous agents inside enterprise workflows. Some capabilities that senior technologists expected to arrive in three to five years have arrived in months. At the same time, capability scaling in other areas has lagged expectations. No one working seriously in this space is confident they know what the technology will be able to do two years from now—let alone five or 10. Yet strategic decisions, such as investments in infrastructure, evolving business models, or commitments to workforce development, play out over exactly those horizons. Leaders are forced to make long-range choices in an environment in which the technology moves faster than the planning cycle.

Uncertainty, though, is only part of the challenge. With it comes a whole host of deeper risks. The same tools that make........

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