单选题 .  AI is probably coming for your job. But there may be a way to future-proof your career. "Humans are going to find meaningful work if they can do the things that machines can't do well," says Ed Hess, a professor of business administration at University of Virginia. "And that's higher-order thinking—critical, creative, innovative, imaginative thinking."
    In order to remain relevant in the new world of work, we'll need to lean in to the skills that make us most human. Psychologists, social workers, elementary school teachers: These kinds of careers require a real understanding of what it means to be a person. Job numbers support this argument: As automation creeps in, fields that interact with machines such as construction work, factory work, and machine operation are declining rapidly, while occupations that value interpersonal skills, like those in the healthcare field, are seeing explosive growth.
    Hess believes that soon, it won't be enough to simply be intelligent; AI has the capacity to be much smarter than us. Adapting to the future of work therefore means we need to redefine "smart" to focus on our quality of thinking. In other words, we'll have to learn how to become more emotionally intelligent.
    Emotional intelligence (El) is a person's ability to perceive, utilize, and manage their emotions, as well as the emotions of others. It's a valuable skill for management roles, or any job that requires a significant amount of social interaction. A psychotherapist, for example, might use EI skills to put themselves in the shoes of their clients to try to understand their patterns of thinking. A startup founder with high EI might use a missed business target as an opportunity to invigorate (鼓舞) their team. The ability to listen, collaborate, empathize (产生共鸣), and self-regulate are all part of an emotionally intelligent person's toolkit.
    If machines struggle to imitate these human-oriented abilities, automation could bring about a moment of reckoning for EI skills, which have a long history of being undervalued by the labor market.
    And that might just mean a moment of reckoning for women, too. Studies of emotional intelligence have shown that women have a distinct EI advantage over men. Not only do they score higher on EI tests generally, but they score higher on every single subscale of EI tests, as well. Study after study has shown that women outperform men at understanding, expressing, and perceiving emotions.
    This might explain why, after the financial crisis, women managed to adapt to the decline in middle-skill jobs better than men did, despite women being hit hardest. While the jobs that AI is displacing are mostly held by men, it is primarily women moving into expanding occupations like home health aides and nursing. Labor market experts have assumed that another reason this gap is growing is because men are reluctant to move into booming fields like healthcare as they see it as "pink collar," or women's work.1.  What kind of work can't AI do well?______
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】 由题干中的can't和do well定位至第一段第三句。
   推理判断题。定位句提到,如果人类能做好机器无法胜任的工作,人类就可以找到有意义的工作。文章接着指出,这类工作需要更高级的思维,如批判性思维、创造性思维、创新思维和想象能力。选项中只有C符合文章的描述,故本题答案为C。
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   人工智能也许会抢了你的饭碗,但也许有办法使你的工作适应未来。“如果人类可以做那些机器无法胜任的工作,人类就可以找到有意义的工作,”弗吉尼亚大学企业管理教授爱德·海斯说,“这类工作需要更高级的思维——批判性思维、创造性思维、创新思维和想象能力。”
   为了在全新的工作环境中继续发挥作用,我们需要倾向于关注让我们“更富人性”的技能。心理学家、社会工作者、小学教师——这些职业需要真正理解“人的意义”。就业数据支持这一观点:随着自动化的推广,与机器互动的领域,如建筑工作、工厂制造和机器操作方面的就业机会正在迅速减少;而注重人际互动技能的工作,如医疗保健领域的工作,则出现了爆发式增长的就业机会。
   海斯教授相信,用不了多久,仅仅是“聪明”已经不够;人工智能能够做到比我们更聪明。因此,适应未来的工作意味着我们需要重新定义“智能”,注重我们的思维质量。换句话说,我们将需要学习如何拥有更高的情绪智力。
   情绪智力(EI)是一个人感知、使用和管理自己和他人情感的能力。对于管理者或任何需要大量社交互动的工作来说,这是一种非常宝贵的技能。例如:一位心理咨询师可能会使用情绪智力能力让自己体会客户的感受,试图理解他们的思维模式。一位情绪智力高的初创企业的创始人可能会将错过的商业目标作为鼓舞团队士气的机会。这种倾听、合作、产生共鸣和自我规范的能力正是人们情绪智力的部分体现。
   如果机器也来尽力模仿这些以人为导向的能力,自动化可以带来对情绪智力能力的评估。长期以来,这些能力一直都被劳动力市场忽视。
   同时,这可能也只是意味着女性会被重新评估。对情绪智力的研究表明,女性在情绪智力上确实比男性有更明显的优势。她们不仅在情绪智力的测试中普遍比男性得分更高,而且在情绪智力测试的每个单项中也都得分更高。一项接一项的研究显示,女性在理解、表达和感知情感方面都优于男性。
   这也许能够解释为什么在金融危机后,女性比男性更好地适应了中等技能就业市场的萎缩,尽管她们受到的冲击最大。尽管人工智能正在替代人类从事的工作主要由男性从事,然而主要是女性进入了扩张的新就业领域,如家庭保健辅助和护理工作。劳动力市场专家认为,造成该差距扩大的另外一个原因是,男性不愿意进入医疗保健之类的蓬勃发展的劳动市场,因为他们把这视为“粉领”或女人的工作。