We have long known that the robots were coming, but now that they are here, the mismatch between our modern education system and the technology-fueled workplace is glaringly apparent. As robots expertly perform routine tasks and increasingly assume broader workforce responsibilities, we must ask ourselves an important question: What is our key human differentiator?

The Power of Creativity

According to Boston University professor Iain Cockburn, who just published a new paper on the impact of artificial intelligence, the human competitive advantage lies in optimizing "what we can do better than machines, which is imagination, creativity, judgment." In the paper, Cockburn and his colleagues suggest that it's possible the robots will catch up to us soon in these realms, but they are not there yet.