Will AI Replace Humans?

Author(s): Parsa Kohzadi

Originally published on Towards AI.

AI won’t take your job, but someone who knows AI might!

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“Will AI replace humans?” That’s the question everyone’s been asking themselves lately. The short answer?

No—AI won’t replace humans. But it will replace people who fail to keep up.

Consider this: A recent survey from IBM found that over 40% of the global workforce will need to reskill in the next three years due to AI. The professional world is splitting into two camps:

People who know how to use AI to multiply their capabilities.People who get left behind.

If you want to stay in the first group—and thrive rather than merely survive—you need to master a new set of skills. Let’s dive deeper into the seven essential ones.

Forget the cliché of AI doing “everything automatically.” The reality is:

AI is only as good as the prompts you give it.

Prompt engineering is the art of writing precise, well-structured instructions that help AI produce useful, high-quality results. For example, a vague prompt like “Write an article about marketing” might yield generic fluff. But a well-crafted prompt like “Write a 700-word blog post on B2B SaaS marketing trends in 2025, citing at least two statistics and suggesting three actionable strategies” produces far superior output.

Example Use Cases:

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