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A new McKinsey Global Institute report, Agents, robots, and us: Skill partnerships in the age of AI, has identified the most vulnerable skills to the emerging AI and robotics threat as highly specialized and automatable skills in the next five years.

The new Skill Change Index noted in the literature indicates that routine accounting operations, individual programming languages, invoicing, and structured data activities are exposed to automation up to 60 percent in the scenarios where it will have been adopted more quickly. Manual and repetitive mental duties are also very susceptible.

Contrarily, interpersonal and people-oriented functions like coaching, negotiation, conflict management, leading, and empathy features have the least exposure to automation. McKinsey argues that the majority of the skills will not disappear but transform, and the workers will collaborate more and more with the agents of AI.

AI fluency, the ability to effectively apply, control, and collaborate with AI tools, is already increasing nearly sevenfold. Human-AI hybrids such as framing problems and making decisions will be able to succeed in the transformed workplace.

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