00:00 Speaker A
Andrew, nice to meet you. So in this new AI era, when you talk about the disruption of the labor market, Andrew, would you mind just thinking a little bit to quantify that? How big of a disruption do you think it will be? And are there any specific jobs? Andrew, which jobs do you think are most at risk?
00:30 andrew
Listen, Damon is absolutely right. The people who say AI isn’t going to take your job haven’t been listening to the CEO’s earnings call in recent quarters or have been giving PR stories. Jobs are definitely being lost, and those that remain are changing rapidly. According to LinkedIn, 85% of workers will see perhaps a quarter of the skills they need to do their jobs completely rebuilt over the next two years.
01:06 andrew
And we are entering the AI-assisted workforce. So all we’re being asked to do is that if we actually keep doing our jobs, employees will expect to do more in less time and be more innovative because they have AI at their fingertips. If a project takes you two weeks to come up with an idea, people will expect you to be able to present those projects in two days. Because we have AI at our disposal, and for that we need AI skills.
01:34 andrew
Yesterday’s skills are not today’s skills. No matter how educated you are, you need to start learning new skills. We talk a lot about AI skills, and they’re important. However, human-centered skills such as storytelling, risk mitigation, and conflict resolution abilities are key to getting the job done. Because storytelling is the difference between people understanding that AI contributed an idea and understanding that a human contributed an idea. What you want is for AI to become the product, not you.
02:11 Speaker A
Andrew, I thought this was an interesting statistic that you mentioned here. A study by Microsoft and LinkedIn found that 66% of leaders would not hire someone without AI skills. So when we talk about basic AI skills, what is Andrew? How do you define them? And how should people learn them?
02:37 andrew
I think people need to start thinking about the basics of AI and what it can do and how to actually tell the difference between something created by AI and something that humans have come up with. How to take what you get from artificial intelligence and generative AI and add your own edits and human touch to it. Add your own EQ on top of that, right? It’s about being able to engineer quickly, being able to get the most out of an AI system, being able to ask great questions of an AI system, being able to commission research, being able to understand which programs are actually useful for which tasks. Are you using Strictly Chat GPT? Claude, are you using it? Besides other tools, do you use other tools that are appropriate for research?Writing, of course, but if you’re an engineer, for example, it’s definitely going to stop being your job, and you might need to start thinking about how to pivot from there. Many marketers may be wondering how they can get that information, and how they can actually layer their own creativity onto the functionality of the system. How do you actually use these tools to continue working without them interrupting or distracting you from your work?
