How to be irreplaceable in the age of AI
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What makes you irreplaceable in the age of AI?
Last week, LinkedIn CEO and Executive VP of Microsoft Office and Microsoft Copilot Ryan Roslansky and LinkedIn Chief Economic Opportunity Officer Aneesh Raman , sat down with host Jessi Hempel to share how to use AI as a thought partner to redesign your role, not replace it.
The way you stand out is by doubling down on the human strengths only you can bring, and then using AI to amplify them, Roslansky recommends. Nobody beats you at being you, so focus on Five C’s: courage, curiosity, creativity, communication and compassion.
💡Try this:
“Tasks, not titles” framework: List the core tasks of your job, then sort them into three buckets:
- What you can hand over to AI
- What AI can help you do better
- What stays uniquely human
This tells you what skills you need to focus on, gives you agency and a plan to evolve your role right now.
Curious how to showcase your skills to recruiters? Watch Ryan break it down here:
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What do you bring to your work that no AI can replicate? Let us know in the comments. Check out the Open to Work book to get more advice on how to get ahead in the age of AI.
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I love this. AI is great but you can’t forget building relationships with people!
The art of continuous learning will make you irreplaceable.
Every conversation I have around "What can I do about AI?" comes down to Taste and Trust. Taste: AI's good at replicating what is. Copying. But creating something new to delight? That's a human trait. Trust: Especially when it comes to building partnerships and large deals, it's hard for humans to cede that over to AI entirely. How do I bring this to work? I get to know my stakeholders and sponsors WELL. I learn what makes them tick, and what they generally prefer. I observe them. They learn about me. The programs I run are high-stakes. Fail, and we lose trust with many. We are stacking trust every day, and that's uniquely human.
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I think this helps bring the debate more to what happened when PC's started to replace typewriters or smartphone adoption took hold in business. Technological innovation will always be there to increase individual productivity and for (collective) growth into new opportunities.