Boston Consulting Group(@BCG):Skills that leaders identify as key to long-term organizational performance—judgment, problem understanding, creative thinking, and more—are the ones that they consider most at risk due to AI. When this skill attrition occurs across thousands of people simultaneously, the business's collective intelligence quietly degrades. This is “distributed de-skilling”—a collective erosion of human skills that undermines organizational intelligence and resilience over time. Here are six strategies to mitigate de-skilling risk:

2026.06.19 05:00

Skills that leaders identify as key to long-term organizational performance—judgment, problem understanding, creative thinking, and more—are the ones that they consider most at risk due to AI. When this skill attrition occurs across thousands of people simultaneously, the business's collective intelligence quietly degrades. This is “distributed de-skilling”—a collective erosion of human skills that undermines organizational intelligence and resilience over time. Here are six strategies to mitigate de-skilling risk: