AI job worries grow. But some human skills can’t be replaced by machines | Gaynor Parkin and Dave Winsborough
TL;DR
The fear of becoming obsolete is a rising source of anxiety as artificial intelligence emerges in the workplace. Staying strongly connected with others will help The modern mind is a column where experts discuss mental health issues they are seeing in their work Earlier this year Paul* discovered via a flurry of media stories that his business group had been targeted for job cuts, alongside a number of other public sector agencies.
Nauti's Take
For teams, the first question is not whether human soft skills will stay irreplaceable forever. The more useful check is which parts of a workflow leadership already sees as standardizable and what evidence supports that view.
If a company ties AI to cost cutting, verify which tasks are measurably exposed and where coordination, trust, and context still create real value.
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