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Generative AI Adoption and Higher Order Skills

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  • Piyush Gulati
  • Arianna Marchetti
  • Phanish Puranam
  • Victoria Sevcenko

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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 378 US public firms that recruited explicitly for GenAI skills (2021-2023), we analyze how GenAI adoption shifts the demand for workers' skills. Our findings reveal that the advertised roles which explicitly rely on GenAI tools such as ChatGPT, Copilot, etc., have 36.7 percent higher requirements for cognitive skills. Further, a difference-in-differences analysis shows that the demand for social skills within GenAI roles increases by 5.2 percent post-ChatGPT launch. These emerging findings indicate the presence of a hierarchy of skills in organizations with GenAI adoption associated with roles that rely on cognitive skills and social skills.

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  • Piyush Gulati & Arianna Marchetti & Phanish Puranam & Victoria Sevcenko, 2025. "Generative AI Adoption and Higher Order Skills," Papers 2503.09212, arXiv.org.
    • Handle: RePEc:arx:papers:2503.09212
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