"As AI displaces jobs, one of the "godfathers of AI" shared the career advice he'd give to his 4-year-old grandson to prepare him for the future. "Work on the beautiful human being that you can become. I think that that part of ourselves will persist even if machines can do most of the jobs," research scientist Yoshua Bengio said on an episode of "The Diary of a CEO" podcast, hosted by Steven Bartlett, posted on December 18."
"Bengio said that even as the world becomes more tech-driven, there will always be a need for human qualities such as love, accepting responsibility, and enjoying contributing to others' well-being. "If I'm in a hospital, I want a human being to hold my hand while I'm anxious or in pain. The human touch is going to, I think, take more and more value, as the other skills become more and more automated," he said."
A leading AI researcher urges cultivating deeply human attributes—compassion, responsibility, and the joy of contributing to others—to stay relevant as automation spreads. Tasks performed behind keyboards are likely to be automated relatively soon, while some physical jobs could be replaced by robots over a longer horizon. Human capacities for empathetic connection and comforting others will grow in relative importance as routine skills become automated. An AI safety nonprofit called LawZero targets reduction of dangerous behaviors in agentic AI systems, highlighting the parallel need for safety research alongside human-centered skill development.
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