Generative AI Adoption and Higher Order Skills
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| author | Gulati, Piyush Marchetti, Arianna Puranam, Phanish Sevcenko, Victoria |
| author_facet | Gulati, Piyush Marchetti, Arianna Puranam, Phanish Sevcenko, Victoria |
| contents | We study how Generative AI (GenAI) adoption is reshaping work. While prior studies show that GenAI enhances role-level productivity and task composition, its influence on skills - the fundamental enablers of task execution, and the ultimate basis for employability - is less understood. Using job postings from 596 US public firms that recruited explicitly for GenAI skills (2022-2024), we analyze how GenAI adoption shifts the demand for workers' domain-specific as well as higher-order (domain-agnostic) skills. Our findings reveal that roles with higher demand for cognitive skills are also more likely to explicitly advertise GenAI tool requirements such as ChatGPT, Copilot, etc. Further, a difference-in-differences analysis shows that the demand for social skills within GenAI adopting roles decreases by 4.5 percent post-ChatGPT launch. As cognitive and social skills are both meta-skills - i.e., they support the acquisition of future task-specific skills - our results suggest that the adoption of GenAI may be altering the trajectories of feasible upskilling. |
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| spellingShingle | Generative AI Adoption and Higher Order Skills Gulati, Piyush Marchetti, Arianna Puranam, Phanish Sevcenko, Victoria General Economics Economics We study how Generative AI (GenAI) adoption is reshaping work. While prior studies show that GenAI enhances role-level productivity and task composition, its influence on skills - the fundamental enablers of task execution, and the ultimate basis for employability - is less understood. Using job postings from 596 US public firms that recruited explicitly for GenAI skills (2022-2024), we analyze how GenAI adoption shifts the demand for workers' domain-specific as well as higher-order (domain-agnostic) skills. Our findings reveal that roles with higher demand for cognitive skills are also more likely to explicitly advertise GenAI tool requirements such as ChatGPT, Copilot, etc. Further, a difference-in-differences analysis shows that the demand for social skills within GenAI adopting roles decreases by 4.5 percent post-ChatGPT launch. As cognitive and social skills are both meta-skills - i.e., they support the acquisition of future task-specific skills - our results suggest that the adoption of GenAI may be altering the trajectories of feasible upskilling. |
| title | Generative AI Adoption and Higher Order Skills |
| topic | General Economics Economics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.09212 |