How cognitive tech is influencing the skills of the future

How cognitive tech is influencing the skills of the future

What is the relationship between macro-level labor trends and micro-level skills and workplace trends? How is the world of work being transformed by the rapid increase of cognitive technologies, such as artificial intelligence? These are among the questions we asked this week’s guest, Morgan Frank, a postdoctoral associate at MIT’s media lab. Frank shares insights from his research on the socio-economic consequences of technological change and discusses how the change will influence society and workers today. He calls out common misconceptions about the role of cognitive technology in today’s world and weighs in on whether cognitive technologies could help resolve socioeconomic issues such as income inequality.

If you don't take into account the nuanced ways in which people work together and understand the interlinking pieces, you might get a negative impact when introducing new technology.

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From jobs to superjobs

As organizations embrace and adopt robotics and AI, they’re finding that virtually every job can be redesigned—creating new categories of work, including hybrid jobs and “superjobs.”

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Looking ahead: Where is reinvention headed?

Zooming out to take a long-term view of the trends shaping human capital and business can help leaders set priorities for reinvention.

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