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SuperSkills
The Seven Human Skills for the Age of AI
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The Seven Human Skills for the Age of AI
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It does not begin with a reckless decision. It begins with a sequence of small ones never quite made, until the capability has moved and nobody remembers deciding to. Rahim Hirji calls it drift.
SuperSkills is the answer to it: a field guide to seven human capabilities that grow more valuable as the tools spread, built on seven years of research across more than 200 organisations and carried by a family story across four generations and three continents.
Part warning and part route forward, it argues that what comes next is not the birth of something new but an evolution of the skills we have always used to adapt, now built on purpose rather than by accident.
The seven SuperSkills: Curiosity, Change Readiness, Big Picture Thinking, Empathy, Global Adaptability, Principled Innovation, and Augmented Mindset.
Two short films on why this book exists and why it matters now.
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Bookshops, beaches, wine cellars, conference stages, airplane seats and the occasional four-legged reader. SuperSkills is getting around.
A powerful and practical 'operating system' for career survival in the AI era, and a timely and optimistic reminder that human judgement is the superpower that will save us.
Founding Editor-in-Chief, WIRED UK
At a time of profound change and uncertainty, I distrust anyone promising simple solutions. This is the antidote. A marvellously humane model for building capability amid the 21st century's tumult.
Author of Wise Animals
In proposing 'superskills' for the new era of AI, Hirji outlines what is essential to navigate the most intense technological disruption humanity has yet had to face.
Founding Director, LSE Entrepreneurship
The compass we didn't know we needed. What makes us irreplaceable isn't processing power, it's seven deeply human abilities that must be actively practised.
COO, Center for AI Safety; former COO, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
The AI Age is moving fast and will impact every industry and field. Rahim Hirji's seven superskills are the key ones to keep thriving in the world that is now opening up.
Futurist and former Managing Editor, WIRED
One of the exceptionally rare books that I will reread. Rahim Hirji turns nonfiction into narrative and gives language to human skills I've observed and taken for granted.
Entrepreneur, investor and former CEO, Kenexa
Whether AI is our ally depends upon how well we employ the SuperSkills offered in this book. Our humanity and our future are at stake. Read, heed, and relish this book, for your sake and the sake of the generations to come.
Co-Founder and President, Institute for Humane Education
A reminder that success is not about what you know today, it is about your capacity to keep learning forever.
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"What We Are Reading Today" feature
Read the full feature →A twenty-five-year data and audience-insight veteran who set out to argue with the book, and ended up recommending it.
DAVID BOYLE · SATURDAY AI THOUGHTS
Independent review
Read the review →A must-read for anyone that wants to be on the front foot in terms of the human skills needed to navigate our AI current and future world.
KATIE FULFORD
Publisher, Bell Lomax Moreton Agency
View on LinkedIn →SuperSkills is the insight the world has been waiting for. A concrete framework for navigating this insanely fast-paced time we are in.
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