{"id":49089,"date":"2026-04-14T19:01:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T19:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/linkedin-ceo-says-ai-is-boosting-the-value-of-these-4-soft-skills\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T19:01:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T19:01:11","slug":"linkedin-ceo-says-ai-is-boosting-the-value-of-these-4-soft-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/linkedin-ceo-says-ai-is-boosting-the-value-of-these-4-soft-skills\/","title":{"rendered":"LinkedIn CEO says AI is boosting the value of these 4 soft skills"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/69de4e20899c9d3be05104fb?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Ryan Roslansky, the CEO of LinkedIn, talks onstage in a gray suit with a red tie.\"\/><figcaption>LinkedIn&#039;s CEO has a front-row seat to how American careers are changing. They&#039;re turning into tktk.<\/p>\n<p>Riccardo Savi\/Getty Images for Concordia Summit<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky said &quot;soft skills&quot; are more important as AI takes over routine work.<\/li>\n<li>He highlighted four communication-specific skills to hone.<\/li>\n<li>Other Silicon Valley leaders have made more dramatic predictions about AI&#039;s impact on jobs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Personality hires, rejoice. LinkedIn&#039;s CEO said soft skills are getting a hard rebrand.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with the &quot;Tools and Weapons&quot; podcast, LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky said AI is automating routine tasks. He argued that the shift is elevating four human-centered skills \u2014 curiosity, courage, communication, and compassion.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;These turn out to be some really, really important skills to do your job well,&quot; the CEO said. &quot;The focus and emphasis on those, along with the AI, is what I think gives us the opportunity to dream big and paint a much more positive picture that exists with humans and technology together moving forward.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Roslansky has a broad view of the job market based on LinkedIn data, though he did not cite specific figures in the interview. His view contrasts with some other Silicon Valley voices (and a growing number of Americans).<\/p>\n<p>This year, OpenAI investor Vinod Khosla predicted that today&#039;s five-year-olds won&#039;t need a job. Boris Cherny, the creator of Anthropic&#039;s Claude Code, said the job title &quot;software engineer&quot; will fade away this year. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang recently said he wants high-paid engineers to spend half their salary on AI tokens.<\/p>\n<p>Roslansky&#039;s vision is less jarring. Instead, he argues that AI is reshaping how people think about their jobs, encouraging workers to view their roles as a &quot;collection of tasks&quot; rather than a fixed title.<\/p>\n<p>He breaks those tasks into three buckets: ones AI can fully automate, ones it can augment, and ones that remain deeply human \u2014 like resolving conflict, persuading a team, or setting strategy.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;These skills, they&#039;re important, but they&#039;ve historically been talked about as soft skills,&quot; Roslansky said. &quot;In a professional world where people are actually much better at these skills and have really honed their craft on it, I think that it makes things a lot better.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>As AI handles more automated responsibilities, Roslansky said that agents can free up time for coworker conversations, putting a greater premium on communication, judgment, and emotional intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>He said his thought process has given him a hopeful view of AI&#039;s future. Still, he said he doesn&#039;t have a crystal ball and could ultimately be wrong.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Sometimes when you&#039;re mired in the technology, and especially with AI, and you kind of draw out where this could potentially go, it leads you to some dark places,&quot; he said. &quot;I believe that humans play such an integral role in shaping where that technology should go.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LinkedIn&#039;s CEO has a front-row seat to how American careers are changing. They&#039;re turning into tktk. Riccardo Savi\/Getty Images for Concordia Summit LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky said &quot;soft skills&quot; are more important as AI takes over routine work. He highlighted four communication-specific skills to hone. 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