… you’re less likely to lose your job to AI than to another human using AI, especially if you don’t use AI yourself. In that sense, there’s nothing new about the AI age; just like previous disruptive technologies, AI is eliminating some jobs but creating many more new jobs in turn, which desperately require humans.
Free article (2 articles per month) from Harvard Business Review.
The article is written for employers, but it’s not hard to see what advice it offers to people thinking about the future of work as it applies to them.
For example:
… prioritise soft skills - such as learning ability, curiosity, resilience, and adaptability — over hard skills — such as programming or data mining — focusing on the foundational ingredients of employability rather than current technical expertise or past employment history,