Your point about AI changing team structures gets at a deeper idea: "the medium is the message". The real impact of AI isn't the task it does, but how it fundamentally alters the team's communication patterns and power structures. The manager's new job isn't just to use the tool, but to become the intentional designer of the new culture that emerges around it.
I think that soft skills are definitely still needed for quite a few years at least.
Perhaps forever, who knows.
I also think that until every single interaction, thought or conversation we have is recorded by AI, it's hard for it to have the same amount of insight into our work as we do.
What if with AGI we have an agent with human-level intelligence, with access to a much greater amount of data and processing power?
In that moment, how much soft skills would be required to work with a multitude of robots? How much degree of work will be done with humans?
Maybe we going in the direction of a Star Trek future (really hope so), but until then, with decrease of people in projects, not sure if soft skills would be a game changing skill like it is today.
Truth is, even in the world of AI/AGI, leaders would still be needed, even if we don't need managers.
Your point about AI changing team structures gets at a deeper idea: "the medium is the message". The real impact of AI isn't the task it does, but how it fundamentally alters the team's communication patterns and power structures. The manager's new job isn't just to use the tool, but to become the intentional designer of the new culture that emerges around it.
Hello Jake. Indeed. Also there might be the need for the manager to get new skills since AI will become so disruptive.
I think that soft skills are definitely still needed for quite a few years at least.
Perhaps forever, who knows.
I also think that until every single interaction, thought or conversation we have is recorded by AI, it's hard for it to have the same amount of insight into our work as we do.
Hope you are right 👍
What if with AGI we have an agent with human-level intelligence, with access to a much greater amount of data and processing power?
In that moment, how much soft skills would be required to work with a multitude of robots? How much degree of work will be done with humans?
Maybe we going in the direction of a Star Trek future (really hope so), but until then, with decrease of people in projects, not sure if soft skills would be a game changing skill like it is today.