Understand what AI replaces, not whom
Manual labour and handshakes may survive artificial intelligence, but the underlying tasks are already changing
HERE is a quiet test for jobs that might survive the artificial intelligence era: Do you wash your hands at the end of the working day?
If you do, it is probably for one of two reasons: You work with your hands – as an electrician, plumber, chef or landscaper – and the grime of craft accumulates in the day.
Or, you work through people, as a leader, adviser or relationship manager, with trust as the medium of exchange.
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