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This IBM study highlights a significant misalignment between executive expectations for human oversight of AI and employee perceptions regarding skills erosion, particularly in critical thinking. The data suggests that organizations maximizing AI value are successfully restructuring workflows to emphasize human-led decision-making, yet nearly half fail to integrate CHROs into AI strategy formulation. For the industry, this underscores the urgent need to bridge the gap between technical deployment and workforce capability development to mitigate risks associated with automated judgment.

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New IBM CHRO Study: AI Puts Critical Thinking at the Center of Workforce Priorities

GDELTSeptember 21, 20265 min read

, /PRNewswire/ -- A new global study from the IBM (NYSE: IBM) Institute for Business Value points to a disconnect between the skills Chief Human Resource Officers (CHROs) say AI requires and those employees prioritize. While 71% of CHROs identify the ability to supervise, validate and override AI outputs as the workforce's most essential skill, only 29% of employees rank judgment as important. The study,* which surveyed 1,500 CHROs and 8,800 employees globally, finds that 60% of employees worry about skills erosion, with critical thinking cited most often as declining. At the same time, CHROs identify critical thinking (57%) and human judgment (48%) as…

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