The Hard Edge of Human Advantage
By Adam Riley and Dr. David SmithThis week Riley and Smith reach the payoff. As AI drives the cost of competent work toward zero, they argue, the value shifts to what is hardest to automate and easiest to underrate: judgment, creativity, the sense to read a situation and the nerve to stand behind a call. Not, it turns out, the soft part of the job at all.
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