Future-Proof Your Career Against AI. If you're worried that AI could replace you, you're not alone. But while the fast-developing technology is certain to disrupt many jobs and industries, you can take steps now to future-proof your career. - Hone the people skills AI imitates. While AI can display empathy, self-awareness, and creativity, it's important to remember that this is just an illusion. People skills still belong to people.
- Double down on the real world. AI can't disrupt our analog work or our physical, in-person connections with each other. Carve out time to safeguard that work and those relationships.
- Invest in your personal brand. Especially when it comes to creative fields, strong human brands will continue to be more valuable than generic AI work.
- Develop recognized expertise in your industry. Even if AI performs "first draft" functions, its output still has to be double-checked by a trusted, reliable source. If that's you, you'll continue to be sought out because you'll have the ability to vet and refine AI's responses.
- Avoid predictability. It's important to remember that AI isn't generating new insights; it's a prediction engine. If you want to stand out, you may be better served (in some cases) by doing the opposite of what it suggests, because you'll be bucking conventional wisdom.
| | | | Today’s Tip | | Future-Proof Your Career Against AI | If you're worried that AI could replace you, you're not alone. But while the fast-developing technology is certain to disrupt many jobs and industries, you can take steps now to future-proof your career.
- Hone the people skills AI imitates. While AI can display empathy, self-awareness, and creativity, it's important to remember that this is just an illusion. People skills still belong to people.
- Double down on the real world. AI can't disrupt our analog work or our physical, in-person connections with each other. Carve out time to safeguard that work and those relationships.
- Invest in your personal brand. Especially when it comes to creative fields, strong human brands will continue to be more valuable than generic AI work.
- Develop recognized expertise in your industry. Even if AI performs "first draft" functions, its output still has to be double-checked by a trusted, reliable source. If that's you, you'll continue to be sought out because you'll have the ability to vet and refine AI's responses.
- Avoid predictability. It's important to remember that AI isn't generating new insights; it's a prediction engine. If you want to stand out, you may be better served (in some cases) by doing the opposite of what it suggests, because you'll be bucking conventional wisdom.
| | This tip is adapted from “5 Ways to Future-Proof Your Career in the Age of AI,” by Dorie Clark and Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic | | |  | | Cultivate the best you. | | Connect to the content you want most with HBR subscription plans: Digital, Digital & Print, and Premium. | | | | |  | | Leaders Who Make a Difference | | Join us for our third annual Leaders Who Make a Difference virtual conference where we convene top CEOs and management thinkers for a day of insightful discussion. | | | | | | | | | | | |
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