The ancestors of recent birds were the only survivors of some of the severe mass extinction events within the history of the world. Today, 10,000 known bird species exist, all of them the descendants of dinosaurs. Polar adaptations, seed-based diets and even nest designs can have played roles in determining who lived and who died.
In the fourth industrial revolution era, enterprises and human staff are equally susceptible to becoming extinct. This time, being proactive is crucial and flexibility is the reply.
Stemming from my work on transforming passive bystanders into agents of change, I propose that understanding one’s own behaviours is essential to adapting within the AI era.
Adapting to an AI era
The artificial intelligence (AI) revolution has began. The technology is maturing very rapidly. The query is not any longer whether we use the technologies or not, but reasonably the way to higher collaborate with them.
Ambient technologies, resembling Siri, Alexa or Cortana, are integrating seamlessly in our interactions. We walk right into a room and interact with them to activate the sunshine, play a song, change the room temperature, keep track of a shopping list, book a ride to the airport or be reminded to take the fitting medication at the fitting time.
And this is just the start.
Emotion AI works on teaching robots the way to feel empathy. Google AI stories are about how AI helps people solve problems. Experts race to predict how we will probably be living with AI within the near future.
More-than-human work
Disruptive technologies are advancing, demographics are shifting, customers are gaining power and the gig economy and global talent markets are rising. This is shaping the long run of labor in all fields including education, cybersecurity, delivery, coaching, management, marketing and sales, health care, music and agriculture.
Human+ staff are individuals who work alongside machines to achieve collaborative intelligence. They consolidate their individual knowledge, skills and experience with a set of tech-driven capabilities to reinforce their performance.
Adaptability training
“Adapt or die” is a business mantra, and the adaptability of a workplace’s employees is their key to the long run where most of the tasks can’t be imagined yet.
The next generation of employees will must be trained as humans+ before they enter the job market, and the present workforce would require continuous reskilling and upskilling.
Little has been done to reimagine the training and reskilling needed for the long run workplace. This said, just like creativity (one other in-demand soft skill) there’s more to adaptability than meets the attention.
Adaptability is the capability to regulate to latest conditions and to thrive in latest environments.
To adapt is a performance that goes beyond knowledge and skills. It requires an attitudinal change that may only occur if we revise our constructs, consider latest perspectives and begin to perceive technology as augmenting our own capabilities as an alternative of replacing them.
Human vs. machine
Many associate AI with science fiction stories resembling the franchise or Isaac Asimov’s series, where technology’s prime goal is to regulate and even exterminate human existence.
Others are influenced by worldwide experts who relentlessly warn against AI and technological domination. Tesla founder Elon Musk has said on several occasions that AI is more dangerous than nuclear weapons and that it may turn out to be an immortal dictator.
Technology has eliminated jobs up to now and will eliminate others within the near future.
New jobs would require the present workforce to commit to lifelong learning.
Besides, AI’s ethical problems are yet to be addressed, and establishing an AI code of ethics is complicated. Since its inception in 2017, 1,130 residents and 28 organizations have signed the Montréal Declaration for a Responsible Development of Artificial Intelligence, a commitment to the socially responsible development and implementation of AI that serves and advantages society.
Empathetic evolution
So can dinosaurs adapt? I say they will, but it’s going to take an empathetic village.
Enterprises that expect their workforce to be ready for the long run of labor must learn fast. They must adopt a proactive mindset and support their employees of their quest to belong to the long run workplace. Mostly, they need to grasp where resistance to alter comes from in an effort to address it.
At the identical time, enterprises have to close the digital divide between themselves and their workforces. Most importantly, they need to search out ways to maintain their people employed. The fear of being replaced can reinforce human dinosaurs’ unwillingness to alter.
Team dynamics should function in an empathetic option to facilitate human/human and human/machine collaborations and to support individual members of their adaptation process.
On a person level, we’d like to develop our mental and emotional capability and our knowledge and skills to embrace the human+ identity and attitude. And last, we’d like to to adapt, which requires a change in how we view the world. Once we discover, analyze and address the core of our resistance to alter, we are able to move to strategies to equip and empower us to take care of uncertainties and actively experiment with latest possibilities.
To adapt, training to develop knowledge and skills are crucial but is not going to be enough. An empathetic and supportive environment and learning about oneself are also essential.
This article was originally published at theconversation.com
