Taimur Baig and Leslie Teo

TAIMUR BAIG IS CHIEF ECONOMIST AT DBS; LESLIE TEO IS SENIOR DIRECTOR AT AI SINGAPORE AND A MEMBER OF THE UNITED NATIONS INDEPENDENT INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC PANEL ON AI.

As AI automates routine cognitive work, the work that remains is decisively human: that of making judgment calls, having the emotional intelligence to handle difficult clients, for example.
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To boldly go: redefining jobs and expertise in the AI era

The technology is clarifying what matters most about human work

Most people write a prompt, get a response, refine, then repeat. When you use agentic AI, it can work more like a research partner, with access to your full project; it sees previous drafts and can combine versions.
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Lessons from writing with AI

Stop thinking of AI output as drafts to accept or reject. Instead, treat it as material to disassemble and recombine. The result:...