OpenAI reveals the AI-era workplace skills that matter most

OpenAI reveals the AI-era workplace skills that matter most Benjamin Fanjoy/Getty Images OpenAI recently published one of the clearest signals yet about which workplace skills may become most valuable in the AI era.In a report on how its researchers use AI, the company shared data showing which tasks are being absorbed by AI and which still rely on people.The biggest automation gains this year came in coding, technical support, monitoring computer runs, and analyzing results. By contrast, AI is still doing relatively little work deciding what projects to pursue, where to invest resources, or how to set priorities.This offers a glimpse of where the value of work may shift.Companies can measure whether code was written, products shipped, or bugs fixed, making those tasks easier to automate. Deciding what should be built in the first place is harder. It requires judgment, context, tradeoffs, and a willingness to take risks.As OpenAI put it: "People still set our research priorities, judge which ideas and results to pursue, and decide whether to scale, pause, or deploy systems."In other words, the future of human work may shift away from execution and toward making the right decisions.Sign up for the AI Insider newsletter here. Reach out to me via email at abarr@businessinsider.com Read next Alistair Barr is the driving force behind Business Insider's AI Insider franchise, including the AI Insider newsletter. Sign up here. Before that, he was Business Insider's Global Tech Editor and the Big Tech team leader at Bloomberg, following a reporting career at The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Reuters, and MarketWatch. Alistair covers all things Big Tech, along with startups and venture capital. He writes analysis and columns about topics including AI, cloud computing, data centers, semiconductors, online search, e-commerce, EVs, robotics, and autonomous vehicles. OpenAI