Professor Ethan Mollick: Switching to trades offers little protection against AI disruption; four core competencies are the key to breaking through

Mollick identifies four key traits for navigating this shift: deep professional expertise, broad knowledge, aesthetic judgment, and subjective initiative. He observes that prompt engineering is rapidly evolving into project management. Additionally, he worries about the breakdown of traditional apprenticeship training chains, pointing out that companies which only hire experienced workers will face a future with no talent pipeline.