3 Skills That Will Matter More in the Age of AI

This article is crossposted from IEEE Spectrum’s careers newsletter. Sign up now to get insider tips, expert advice, and practical strategies, written in partnership with tech career development company Parsity and delivered to your inbox for free!If you have kids, they’re probably back in school right now after the summer break. Mine are too.My kids range from 9 to 20 years old, and lately I’ve been thinking a lot about what their future careers are going to look like.Some schools are embracing AI in the classroom. Others are banning it completely. I’m not sure either side has figured out the right answer yet—I’m not sure any of us have.What I do know is that AI is already changing how engineers, and nearly every other knowledge worker, does their job. So I’ve been thinking: What skills do I actually want my kids to develop for an AI-augmented workforce?1. Learn to writeThe more I use AI, the more convinced I am that it’s a multiplier, not a substitute.Give a great researcher AI tools and they can accelerate their research. Give an experienced software engineer the same tools and they can build at an incredible rate. But put those tools in the hands of someone without foundationa…

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