What People Are Good At

Machines are becoming proficient at an increasing number of tasks that were previously the domain of humans.

From Cooking to running to playing chess to driving, Machines are doing so much these days that I often ask myself "what am people good at that machines aren’t?"

Machines are very good at following rules. As of yet, they aren’t nearly as proficient at creating the rules. 

Given enough investment and effort, many aspects of everyday business will likely be automated, beginning with the simplest, most time consuming parts of the organization. This effect could potentially cause great economic disruption.
Despite great strides at voice and image recognition, humans are still superior at more abstract pattern recognition. Said another way, I’ve yet to see an AI capability that could be construed as seeing a real-world unsolved need and assembling/creating tools to fill that need. That said, CEOs, and senior leadership roles in companies would theoretically be more difficult to automate than the roles of the people who report to them. Along those lines, programming is a method of creating and expressing rules, and to that end, people with programming experience (leaders or otherwise) could theoretically also make themselves more resilient to automation.

The ability to be flexible and continually learn new skill sets seems like it could prove very valuable in a world where things are continually being automated.