AI is causing shifts in work that are fast and furious, and you’ll want to ensure you maintain critical skills to protect, maintain and future-proof your career. AI can make you more efficient and effective, but it also poses risks. Your career success will hinge on balancing your use of AI while retaining your unique value, contribution and talents in the process.

If you’re using AI at work, you’re in good company with 52% of Americans who say the same. But the more important trend is the steady increase in the use of AI for work, according to Gallup; and also in our lives generally, according to Pew Research.

As our use of AI ramps up, there are plenty of memorable terms that warn of the dangers of AI gravity which can drag down our human and career skills. We need to avoid everything from cognitive offloading, cognitive sink and cognitive surrender to cognitive enfeebling or cognitive atrophy.

Career Skills for the Future of AI Work

For success in your career, it will be important that you don’t hand off too much to AI; ensuring that you retain ownership for ideas and work quality as well as your thinking, your relationships and your wellbeing.

1. Communication and Writing Skills

Communication and writing skills are among the most important skills that recruiters are looking for according to studies by Drexel University and NACE, so you’re wise to protect and sustain these.

If you use AI for writing and communication, data from Omni Calculator suggests that people can tell. Worse, when people believe a coworker has used AI, they trust the content less, they trust the person less and they lose respect for them. In fact, 45% of people have negative perceptions of someone using AI, and they believe they have ‘lost their personality.’

Use AI judiciously in your........

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