{"id":16233,"date":"2026-04-25T03:54:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T03:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/16233\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T03:54:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T03:54:03","slug":"father-of-agi-ben-goertzel-shares-three-skills-employees-need-to-remain-useful-and-relevant-as-ai-disrupts-job-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/16233\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Father of AGI\u2019 Ben Goertzel shares three skills employees need to remain useful and relevant as AI disrupts job market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ben-goertsel.jpg\" alt=\"\u2018Father of AGI\u2019 Ben Goertzel shares three skills employees need to remain useful and relevant as AI disrupts job market\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> Ben Goertzel, the computer scientist who famously coined the term \u201cArtificial General Intelligence\u201d (AGI), has a warning for the global workforce: a \u201cjob apocalypse\u201d is looming, and it is arriving much faster than previously anticipated. Goertzel, often called the \u201cFather of AGI,\u201d believes that AI capable of matching human intelligence is only two to three years away, and once it does it will also render the vast majority of current professions obsolete. However, he says people can do things to be AI-safe. According to a report in Forbes, Goertzel noted that the AI revolution is hitting the workforce, and office-based professionals, such as lawyers and graphic artists, are feeling the heat first. He said that roles that require a physical \u201chuman touch\u201d or complex manual navigation, such as plumbers, electricians and educators, are expected to remain relevant much longer than white-collar desk jobs. <\/p>\n<p>Ben Goertzel: The 3 skills you need to be \u2018AI-proof\u2019<\/p>\n<p>To stay relevant during this transition, Goertzel suggests that workers stop focusing on technical tasks that a computer can do better and start honing these three deeply human traits.The first is emotional intelligence. Since super-intelligence takes over the \u201cthinking\u201d work, the only thing left for humans will be each other, hence, emotional intelligence, rapport-building and active listening will become the ultimate currency. In a world flooded with \u201cAI slop\u201d resumes and automated recruiters, the ability to build a genuine human relationship or secure a personal referral will be the only way to bypass the digital gatekeepers.The second is to pivot rapidly. \u201cYou need to be able to pivot rapidly and tap dance really fast,\u201d Goertzel was quoted as saying. The era of a \u201ccareer for life\u201d is dead, and to survive, workers must be agile, learning new skills every month. If your job can be done by a computer such as traditional accounting, Goertzel suggests being ready to switch to \u201chuman-critical\u201d fields.Finally, the need to decouple identity from labor. Many people define themselves by their jobs, but in an era where AGI can do that work, humans must learn to be \u201ccomfortable with themselves\u201d in the moments of stillness. He said that it\u2019s not a matter of, \u201cWhat jobs will stick around?\u201d; It\u2019s more a matter of, \u201cWhat\u2019s the kind of person you will become in this new era?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ben Goertzel, the computer scientist who famously coined the term \u201cArtificial General Intelligence\u201d (AGI), has a warning for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6744,11877,11878,3013,7555,4882,11879],"class_list":["post-16233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-agi","tag-agi","tag-ai-job-market-disruption","tag-ai-proof-skills","tag-artificial-general-intelligence","tag-ben-goertzel","tag-emotional-intelligence","tag-job-apocalypse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}