McKinsey boss says there are 3 skills AI models can't do that young professionals should focus on

"Sternfels said that last year alone, embracing AI saved McKinsey 1.5 million hours in search and synthesis, work that he says AI models are great for. He also said AI agents, of which McKinsey has 25,000, excel at generating charts and that they've made 2.5 million of them in the past six months. With agents taking over some of that work, he said consultants are now "moving up the stack" and tackling "more complicated problems.""

"He identified three: the ability to aspire, judgment, and true creativity. The ability to aspire "What can the models not do? Aspire. Set the right aspiration," he said. "Do you go to low Earth orbit? Do you go to the moon? Do you go to Mars? That's a uniquely human capability." Sternfels said you should look to build skills around aspiring and getting others to believe in those aspirations."

McKinsey deploys 25,000 AI agents alongside human employees. Embracing AI saved 1.5 million hours in search and synthesis in one year. AI agents generated 2.5 million charts in six months. Consultants are moving up the stack to tackle more complicated problems as routine tasks are automated. Employers increasingly seek graduates with the ability to aspire, judgment, and true creativity. Aspiration involves setting bold goals such as missions beyond Earth. Judgment requires setting parameters aligned with firm values and societal norms. True creativity requires leaps beyond models' next-step inference.

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