{"id":473295,"date":"2026-06-03T01:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T01:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/473295\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T01:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T01:02:08","slug":"mo-gawdat-offers-advice-for-job-seekers-in-the-age-of-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/473295\/","title":{"rendered":"Mo Gawdat Offers Advice for Job Seekers in the Age of AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An ex-Google executive has tips for surviving the AI era.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_self\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/mo-gawdat-ai-predictions-risk-fall-capitalism-job-loss\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;tout_click&quot;,&quot;index&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;,&quot;product_field&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mo Gawdat<\/a>, the former chief business officer for Google, predicts that 30% of certain job sectors will be gone by 2028, but people can still &#8220;double down on human skills&#8221; to overcome the turbulence.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have an entire generation that is out of college today that will struggle, unfortunately,&#8221; Gawdat said on an episode of Steven Bartlett&#8217;s podcast &#8220;The Diary Of A CEO&#8221; that aired on Sunday. &#8220;And my advice to them is learn the tool and focus on human-centric jobs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A lot of people can make a living by being a nurse or by being a counselor or by being, you know, anything that connects to humans,&#8221; Gawdat added.<\/p>\n<p>His comments come as tech leaders increasingly point to communication, relationship-building, and having <a target=\"_self\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/ethan-mollick-ai-expert-wharton-taste-skills-ai-2026-5\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;tout_click&quot;,&quot;index&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;,&quot;product_field&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">good judgement <\/a>as skills that remain difficult to automate.<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI president Greg Brockman recently said that &#8220;taste&#8221; is &#8220;a <a target=\"_self\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/taste-new-core-skill-ai-debate-memes-2026-2\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;tout_click&quot;,&quot;index&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;,&quot;product_field&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">new core skill<\/a>.&#8221; He said that while AI can create things quickly, it takes judgment to decide what to keep.<\/p>\n<p>Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn said in a May podcast interview that AI still can&#8217;t match the work of the company&#8217;s artists and designers, and that he won&#8217;t let AI erode the quality of his app.<\/p>\n<p>And Salesforce CEO <a target=\"_self\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/marc-benioff-said-salesforce-is-still-hiring-in-one-department-2026-5\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;tout_click&quot;,&quot;index&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;,&quot;product_field&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Marc Benioff<\/a> said in an earnings call in May that while the company&#8217;s engineering head count has remained &#8220;mostly flat&#8221; at around 15,000 employees over the past two years, it is still adding workers in the sales department.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Because, I think we all realize the one thing that we are doing here with you, selling and communicating, the agents are not exactly doing that,&#8221; Benioff said during the earnings call.<\/p>\n<p>Gawdat also said on &#8220;The Diary Of A CEO&#8221; that even though AI may bring about uncertainty, AI is not the enemy and can be harnessed to create opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;By definition, the better you are at using an AI to do your job, the more likely you are to be successful,&#8221; said Gawdat. &#8220;Learn how to interact with AI. 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