Shaping Tomorrow: Future of Jobs and the Global AI Regulatory Battle
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Future of Jobs Report 2025 | World Economic Forum
The Future of Jobs Report by the World Economic Forum is an annual survey of 1,000 top executives in organizations to understand the skills needed today and in the future.
Key skills needed in 2025:
Analytical thinking
Resilience, flexibility and agility
Leadership and social influence
Furthermore, we will see large growth in the following skills needed over the next 5 years across cybersecurity, talent management, and environmental stewardship.
Key skills needed by 2030:
AI and Big Data
Resilience, flexibility and agility
Analytical thinking
Soft skills will become even more crucial as automation and innovations in technology take off. Including resilience, flexibility and agility, curiosity and lifelong learning.
According to the World Economic Forum, 70% of employers are expecting to hire staff with new skills, 40% are planning to reduce staff as their skills become less relevant, and 50% are planning to transition staff from declining to growing roles.
The skills listed in the Future of Jobs Report aren’t net-new per se as many have been table-stakes for jobs people have today. However, knowing that we are living in dynamically changing times, skills like analytical thinking may look different in the future than what it looks like today. Furthermore, I believe with the rapid growth of automation and AI, the need for soft skills such as creative thinking will be even more essential for us in the near and long term future.
What are ways in which you are up-skilling yourself or your team?
How are you making the space for creative thinking as we move into the age of automation and AI?
The Global Struggle over how to Regulate AI | Rest of World
The AI Safety Summit took place in the UK in 2023, where 28 countries, including the US, China, and the EU, signed the Bletchley Declaration to promote safe and responsible AI development. Today tech leaders are advocating for self regulation of AI governance and building guardrails into the system themselves. The tension however is they may benefit the business over public interest. On the other side, politicians, tech experts, industries affected by AI, and civil society advocates are lobbying for early regulations for copyright, data protections, fair labor practices. Including protecting public safety including for generative deepfakes, biological weapons, and cyber attacks.
The EU AI Act 2024 offers a template and and imposes restrictions on:
AI for social scoring purposes
AI in criminal profiling
Requires labels on content generated by AI — aimed at enhancing transparency and fighting disinformation.
Requirements for developers of AI systems that pose a high risk to health, safety, or fundamental rights.
I don’t believe it’s either self-regulation or government regulation. We need a balance to continue innovating as a global leader without harming public safety. There is an urgency and need for regulation at the government level to ensure public safety and security of AI and automation.
Look at your industry and the implications of AI and automation at large on our society and culture. Are there ways in which you can come together with other thought leaders in your community to drive a point of view and impact?
You can learn more about ways to learn more and get involved at All Tech is Human organization. Feel free to share other resources you may be aware of.