What should you study? The tech mogul says that in the wake of artificial intelligence (AI), "what will be needed in this futuristic society will be human interaction." These are skills and abilities that are less specialized or rooted in specific occupations and more aligned with personal attributes, skills related to your attitudes, and your intuitions.

Entrepreneur reports Elon Musk advises young people on what careers to study so as not to be ‘useless’ in the future. According to the tech mogul, “the essentials will be engineering and human-interactive careers.”

“Artificial Intelligence will make jobs a little pointless, ” Musk said Thursday at the World Conference on Artificial Intelligence. During the conference, he made many predictions about the future of society and the role that his companies Tesla and SpaceX will play. The billionaire has very strong opinions and is not afraid to express them in interviews, conferences, and even on social networks. This time, he spoke about the impact that Artificial Intelligence will have on the jobs of the future and mentioned the careers that will be safe.

During the event, people asked him if they should be worried.

The development of new technologies has always made some obsolete jobs, but it also generates new needs, the question is knowing how to adapt. Although a machine can do the work that once belonged to one person, it now requires someone to control the machine.

“If you’re working on something that involves people or engineering, it’s probably a good focus for your future,” Musk concluded.

While technology and pandemics render us more isolated, many have found that human interaction cannot be underrated. In fact, after almost two years of delivering our curriculum in a 3D virtual environment, returning to live events felt like a homecoming. We didn’t know what we were missing.

We’ve always said that “transacting is a contact sport.” It requires face-to-face human interaction. We have a jam-packed 2022 schedule of Influence Accelerator Workshops live events in the United States, Canada, England, New Zealand, Australia, and Singapore. These live events will help you face behaviors, practices, and naiveté preventing you from satisfying your health, career, and financial aims

Human interactive skills include:

• Communication
• Self-motivation
• Leadership
• Responsibility
• Teamwork and cooperation
• Problem-solving
• Decisiveness
• Working under pressure
• Time Management
• Negotiation and Conflict Resolution

Nowadays, these competencies are sometimes referred to as transferable, interpersonal, or meta-skills. These are skills and abilities that are less specialized or rooted in specific occupations and more aligned with personal attributes, skills related to your attitudes, and your intuitions. Human interaction skills are less about your qualifications and more personality-driven. When coupled with your occupational specialization, these are the skills that can give you a considerable edge. It is essential to consider your interpersonal skills and improve them.

Transactional Competence™ is a pragmatic philosophical approach that views social exchange as a fundamental aspect of human existence; all human interactivity is best understood as a set of transactions within a reciprocal and co-constitutive exchange.

Influential U offers a four-year higher education in these core skills and strategies that you don’t get in business school. This approach provides an extraordinary one-two punch; the practical know-how to build successful transactions plus the ability to engage in robust human exchange.

Elon Musk may not have the ability to see the future; instead, he seems to construct it. Whether he’s right or wrong about the impact AI will have in our lives; we’ll all be better off if our ability to interact with each other is paramount.

AUTHOR

John Patterson
Co-founder and CEO
INFLUENTIAL U
John Patterson co-founded and manages the faculty and consultants of Influential U global. Since 1987, he has led workshops, programs, and conferences for over 100k people in diverse professions, industries, and cultures. His history includes corporate curriculum design focusing on business ecosystems, influence, leadership, and high-performance training and development.