Google’s top AI scientist reveals the most important skill people will need to stay employable in the future, and it’s not coding

Google’s top AI scientist has shared the most important skills people will need in the future to stay employable. Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google’s DeepMind and 2024 Nobel laureate, said that the most important skill for the next generation will be “learning how to learn”. Speaking at an ancient Roman theatre near the Acropolis, Hassabis said the fast pace of AI makes predicting the future extremely difficult. “It’s very hard to predict the future, like 10 years from now, in normal cases. It’s even harder today, given how fast AI is changing, even week by week,” he said. “The only thing you can say for certain is that huge change is coming.”