Artificial intelligence (AI) is over-hyped.
- AI is not the panacea to your business’s woes.
- AI will not fix your unproductive team.
- AI will not catapult your career overnight.
AI is an emerging technology that has captured the zeitgeist, and its long-term impact is unknown.
Three tenets of my argument for why AI will not change your job include:
- The need for emotional intelligence.
- The value of human relationships.
- The view that AI is a tool, not a replacement for humans.
Emotional intelligence over artificial intelligence
AI will not change the people element of your job. Knowing how to work with people and empowering them to bring their best remains unchanged as technology advances.
The current era of emerging generative AI is exciting, but it will not replace the need for humans to interact with humans.
If it ever does, then we as a species have a much bigger problem.
Instead of taking a course on AI or scrolling through your social media feed to uncover the latest AI hacks, take a course on public speaking or read about how emotions impact decision-making.
Focusing your time on your “soft skills,” becoming more of a “people person”, and improving your overall emotional intelligence (EQ) will make you a much more well-rounded professional than knowing the ins and outs of AI.
Humans are emotional beings that use reason to help rationalize our largely emotionally driven decisions.