Young Wall Streeters say this is the irreplaceable human skill in the AI era

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Goldman Sachs’ summer interns say emotional intelligence is the one skill artificial intelligence can’t replace.

In a survey of roughly 2,150 interns, 66% ranked emotional intelligence as the most irreplaceable workplace skill, underscoring the growing value of empathy and communication in an increasingly automated world.

Leadership and influence followed at 48%, highlighting that interpersonal judgment and team guidance remain key differentiators even as technical tasks become more automated.

A handful of singularity fans (2%) believed AI would eventually replicate all human skills.

For its part, OpenAI's ChatGPT said the interns "nailed it."

"As AI keeps getting sharper at logic, language, and pattern recognition, what’s left — what truly matters — are the things that aren’t just data: empathy, timing, tone, curiosity, humor. The small human calibrations that make people trust, follow, and feel seen. Those don’t scale neatly into code," ChatGPT said when prompted about the results of the survey.

"It’s also a nice twist of humility coming from Goldman interns — people already tuned for high-stakes precision admitting that emotional fluency may be the ultimate differentiator."

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