Is taste the one thing AI can’t replace?

NEW YORK TIMES — Whatever it is, personal taste about things like food, art, design and interiors — outside certain rarefied worlds — isn’t usually a prerequisite for professional success. Unless you listen to Greg Brockman, the president of OpenAI.

“Taste is a new core skill,” Mr. Brockman wrote on X last month.

For a big kahuna in the tech industry, which is known more for quantifying than qualifying, such a proclamation might seem strange.

Yet, in recent months, the rise of sophisticated artificial intelligence tools that can be told in plain language to code better and faster than humans has forced many in the tech world to contemplate the prospect of their own obsolescence. If a computer can do anyone’s programming job — or turn anyone who can type into a programmer — how can a person make him or herself indispensable?

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