The Skills That Matter Most in the Age of AI – with Aneesh Raman

Aneesh Raman, LinkedIn’s Chief Economic Opportunity Officer, joins Scott Galloway for the second installment of a two-part series on AI and the future of work. The conversation focuses on which jobs are most and least resilient to AI, how leaders can introduce AI tools without threatening their teams, and whether taste and judgment will become the most valuable human skills. Raman argues that the real challenge isn't technological—it's psychological: a battle of belief about whether AI will eliminate work or transform it.

Which Jobs Are Most and Least Resilient

Raman points to software engineering as a profession whose resilience is being underestimated. Early hype suggested coders were finished, but software engineer jobs have actually increased. The reason: these roles involve more than just coding—customer work, ethical considerations, and collaboration all matter. Raman draws a parallel to ATMs and bank tellers. When ATMs arrived in the 1970s, headlines declared bank tellers obsolete. Instead, teller jobs doubled over the next few decades because banks could open more branches, and tellers shifted from dispensing cash to relationship banking. The decline in teller jobs came later, driven by smartphones, not ATMs. The lesson: a job is not a single task, and predicting obsolescence from a single capability is a mistake.