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LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky, together with Aneesh Raman, has identified five important human skills that the AI will not be able to exactly imitate in the changing job market. They refer to them as the 5Cs in their book Open to Work: How to Get Ahead in the Age of AI as Curiosity, Courage, Creativity, Compassion, and Communication.

According to Roslansky, AI can produce possibilities according to patterns, but only humans can use curiosity to ask, "What if we tried something entirely different?" Risks are calculable by AI, but courage is the only human trait of being ready to do something without the certainty of the results.

Creativity transcends a mere rethinking of what has been done to imagining what is really significant. Compassion enables genuine emotional bonding, which can only be imitated by AI, whereas communication creates actual trust and understanding between humans.

Roslansky points out that these are not mere soft skills but fundamental differentiators that will make professionals, particularly young employees, remain the center of interest and unstable in an AI-oriented world. He encourages all people to build these capabilities up so that they are able to coexist with technology and not compete with it.