Uncertain Times: Caused and Solved by AI

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has created exciting and uncertain times and for many reasons. Long held norms in life have become unstable and chaotic especially when it comes to the role of a technology manager. One particularly scary factor is the increase in unemployability for long term employees who face jobs being replaced by artificial intelligence engines. Job security has been a strength for the tech industry for years but with AI many have begun to worry that their skills are less marketable on future development teams. AI and machine learning tools to train AI are here to stay; however, this work looks at an unconventional approach to solving the very problem that AI seems to have created. By using the A* search agent this research explores connecting older skills developed over years of participation in the industry with new skills that are more valuable in the new job place by replacing job skills and soft skills with locations on a map and then using the A* algorithm to determine proximity and thus similarity.