The most durable advantage in a world of abundant machine intelligence

In a world of abundant machine intelligence, the most durable advantage will be broad intellectual range. As routine analysis becomes automated, what distinguishes professionals is the ability to synthesize across domains, to see patterns that specialists miss, to exercise judgment. The best candidates think independently, navigate ambiguity without waiting for instruction, analyze the questions that were not asked but should have been and own their decisions. They use A.I. — as a tool but not a crutch. Where evidence is mixed and incomplete, professionals must possess the skills to make things better where machines cannot. - Blair Effron writing in The New York Times