Future Proof Your Career in Age of AI (get a liberal arts education)

[ergophobe]

https://www.noemamag.com/why-a-liberal-arts-education-will-soon-be-more-valuable-than-ever/

If your primary value to an organization is the ability to manipulate data, draft documents or write code via a QWERTY interface, you are standing on a shrinking ice floe.

I believe that what will emerge as our most valuable skills are modes of communication and understanding that are best performed orally and socially, such as empathy, negotiation, persuasion and trust-building.


When technology commodifies one set of inputs into the workplace production process, driving their cost and value toward zero, it makes other inputs more valuable. Already three decades ago, MIT economist David Autor and his colleagues found that as computers commodified "routine cognitive tasks" such as bookkeeping and accounting or administrative and clerical support, the relative value of non-routine analytical and interpersonal tasks increased.

[Brad]

Way back when I was at university a major engineering firm was recruiting from the liberal arts school.  When asked why, they said, we need people that can talk, explain things and to and interact with the general public. Engineers aren't always good at that.