Is AI making our skills redundant?

A professor of economics in the USA who is about to receive a Nobel peace prize was talking about AI on the radio this morning.

He was likening the recent explosion around the usage of AI to historical situations with technical developments like the discovery and usage of electricity and also computers.

He said that although AI will replace some of the skills that some people have, it will also enhance the capabilities of others.  He suggested that people would be advised to focus on their people skills to get ahead in the future rather than things that AI can do.

My view is that there will of course be a big shake up in many areas of developed societies and this has already begun. We already incorporate a lot of technology into ordinary life but this a massive change. For me, it's really made it much faster to create teaching materials but there is also something in me that has become redundant as a result. I don't have to use my brain to create these materials as much and, although this was previously something very onerous, it was something I was capable of and gave me a feeling of achievement.

I don't feel driven to rebel against this like with the Luddites but I certainly can have an inkling of the type of feelings they were having.

The Luddites could smash up the machines that were replacing them but we can't really smash up AI!

I am sure a balance will eventually be found.  Adjustments will be made due to the unstoppable nature of this advance in technology.  There will ultimately be no choice but to embrace it and make the best of it. The only other option is to reject it all totally and be left behind.