DiscoverAsia Tech PodcastEP 394 - How Is AI Reshaping Work and Human Talent? - Jeevika Makani, Francis Pẽna, and Kristen Lim
EP 394 - How Is AI Reshaping Work and Human Talent? - Jeevika Makani, Francis Pẽna, and Kristen Lim

EP 394 - How Is AI Reshaping Work and Human Talent? - Jeevika Makani, Francis Pẽna, and Kristen Lim

Update: 2025-10-28
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Artificial intelligence is forcing humanity to confront what truly makes us valuable. As machines become more capable of performing tasks once reserved for human intelligence, the definition of talent is shifting away from knowledge and efficiency toward qualities like judgment, empathy, creativity, and ethical decision-making.

In this episode of ATP, Jeevika Makani, Francis Pẽna, and Kristen Lim posit that while AI levels access to information, it ultimately widens the gap between people who use it to deepen thinking and those who accept generic outputs.

Some of the topics they covered in detail included:

  • There is no room for nostalgia about grunt work. Offloading drudgery is progress if we use the time to think, decide, and connect.
  • AI Tools do not replace creativity; they raise the bar for originality.
  • The new premium skills are stubbornly human. Empathy, ethics, and relationship-building do not compress to an AI prompt.
  • Mainstream exposure to AI is barely two years old. As a community, we will build collective intuition for what AI is good at and where it fails.
  • AI is democratizing product creation for SMEs and other small companies.
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EP 394 - How Is AI Reshaping Work and Human Talent? - Jeevika Makani, Francis Pẽna, and Kristen Lim

EP 394 - How Is AI Reshaping Work and Human Talent? - Jeevika Makani, Francis Pẽna, and Kristen Lim

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