Employers Start Paying a Premium for Skills AI Still Cannot Fake

Employers are increasingly rewarding judgement, communication and critical thinking as AI takes on more routine workplace tasks, according to new labour market data (Credit: Magnific)

Artificial intelligence has become fast, cheap and confident at tasks that once defined a career. It can write reports, summarise data and build a presentation in minutes.

That has not made human workers less useful. It has changed what employers are willing to pay for, and new labour market data suggests judgement, communication and curiosity are becoming the scarcest, and most valuable, skills on the market.