In 2025, the winners won't be the marketers, the developers, or the designers; there'll be AI generalists who

can do it all. I know because I've done it over the past 2 years. I've made

almost $4 million by mastering a specific set of AI skills that have turned me into a one-person army, and in

this video, I'll show you why AI generalists will dominate every industry in the coming years, the eight AI skills

that anyone can learn to become one, and exactly how to master these skills yourself, even if you're starting from

zero. This video isn't just another learn AI guide; it's your blueprint to becoming unstoppable in 2025 and beyond. Before we

get into things, if you are new to the channel and don't know who I am, my name is Liam Ottley, and I've been an

entrepreneur for the past 6 years, the past two of which have been fully focused on building AI businesses, and

for me, going all in on AI has completely changed my life. So on this channel, I help others understand the AI

opportunity and make more money from it by sharing my learnings from building my company, Morningside, into a billion-

dollar AI business. If you want to learn more about me and my story, you can check out my "My Story" video, which I'll

put in the description below. But without further ado, let's get into the eight AI skills you need to crush in 2025 and

beyond. To understand how to be one of the few winners in 2025, regardless of your career path, you need to understand

the dynamics of the period that we're entering into. Over the coming decade, the job market and society itself will

be completely transformed by AI and automation. According to McKinsey's 2023 research, AI could automate up to 50% of

the current work activities by 2030, and similarly, Bain's research shows that up to 80% of workers will face wage

stagnation or displacement by 2030 due to AI and automation. So, in this era of radical transformation, how can you

develop a winning strategy for your career to navigate through these uncharted waters? Believe it or not, evolutionary biology actually holds a

lot of the answers we're looking for here. As Darwin said, it's not the strongest of the species that survives,

nor the most intelligent; it's the one that's most adaptable to change. And so, during periods of massive

environmental change like this rocky period that humanity is entering over the next decade and beyond, the most adaptable organisms survive best, and

nature gives us two distinct strategies for adapting. As an organism, we have specialists and we have generalists. Now,

give me a sec, I will bring this back around, but stick with me. Okay, so consider the giant panda. It's evolved

over millions of years to eat only bamboo, with a thumb that's specifically designed to strip the bamboo leaves off

the bamboo. And now, in stable times, this specialization is actually incredibly successful; there's a lot of bamboo they

can tap into this food source, right? But if something happens to the bamboo forests, these pandas basically face

extinction because they can't adapt to other food sources; they are overly dependent on this specialization. Now, if

you look at something like the raccoon, it can eat almost anything, live almost anywhere, and adapt to new environments

rapidly. And when their habitat and environment changes—say, there are billions of upright apes walking around and

driving SUVs and living in houses—raccoons don't just survive; they've actually thrived with this changing

environment. The most dramatic example of this specialist-first, generalist pattern playing out is over 66 million years ago

when a big asteroid hit Earth and wiped out all the dinosaurs. It wasn't the T-Rex that survived; it wasn't these

specialized marine reptiles or flying pterosaurs—these incredibly specialized and beautiful creatures that were perfectly adapted to their niches—they

were wiped out almost overnight. And who survived? It was the small and adaptable mammals, our ancient ancestors. And they

weren't the strongest or the most specialized; they were generalists who could eat anything, live anywhere, and

quickly adapt to changing conditions in their environment. We're witnessing a similar extinction-level event in the job market right now, and just like the

dinosaurs, there's a gigantic meteor coming right for us. In today's world, thankfully we are not competing for physical survival;

we're competing for economic and professional survival. Just as environmental changes once determined which species thrived, technological changes

are now determining which careers and skills will prosper. In this competition for economic survival, the specialists are the corporate lawyers who spent

years mastering contract law, or the radiologists who dedicated a decade to reading medical images, or those software developers who invested years in

learning a specific programming language. And for the past 80 years, specialization like this has been the safest career

strategy: you get to go deep in one area and become irreplaceable, and enjoy a stable and prosperous career. Right? But

that equation is being flipped on its head over the coming decades as AI systems are now matching or exceeding

these specialists' performance in countless different fields. They are diagnosing diseases as accurately as doctors; they're reviewing legal

documents faster than lawyers and are able to write code better and faster than many developers. And this is just

At the beginning, these AI capabilities are literally doubling every six months, so it's pretty safe to say that no career

is safe over the next 10 years. So we know what a specialist is, but what does an adaptable generalist look like in

today's world? These modern-day generalists are individuals who harness AI to acquire the capabilities of multiple different specialists

simultaneously. While these AI generalists may not match the absolute peak performance of true specialists right now, they can very quickly achieve

up to, say, 80% of the capabilities of specialists across multiple different domains of specialization. So instead of

spending a decade mastering just one skill, these AI generalists can become proficient in new specializations in literally weeks. So they're using image generation to create professional artwork,

they're using AI app builders to create software, and

using language models to write in any style or format they want. They're basically acquiring these new powers

through AI, allowing them to do more with less effort across many different fields. And we'll get to what these

powers are exactly in a minute, but just a little bit longer—you need to stick with me. The potential of these AI

generalists is so profound that Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, recently shared that among his tech CEO friends, they're

all taking bets on when we'll see the first one-person, billion-dollar company. And that's something that would have

been unimaginable without AI, according to them. This is because these AI generalists are like modern-day Leonardo

da Vinci, and we're essentially in a digital Renaissance right now. And just as Da Vinci was able to combine both art

and engineering, and anatomy and mathematics, to see connections that others of his time in the Renaissance missed, today's generalists use AI to bring

multiple different disciplines together and create value and entirely new ways that weren't possible before. The tools at our disposal these days would seem

like complete magic to Leonardo da Vinci. What took him basically years to master, we can now learn in weeks, and

what used to require teams of specialists, you can now do alone with AI. And what once would have cost millions

in equipment and staff, people can now achieve from their laptop on their own. And so the path to thriving in 2025

and beyond isn't through deeper specialization; it's through becoming an AI generalist who has the power of

entire departments of business at their fingertips. And this requires mastering four fundamental powers in the AI age,

that are each unlocked by a specific set of skills that anyone can learn, which we're going to jump into in a second. It

may seem daunting to have to pick up all these skills, but learning them is what it's actually going to take to be able

to thrive in the AI age. But don't just take it from me; take it from Peter Thiel and the advice that he gave to Mark

Zuckerberg. Peter Thiel is an absolute legend in the tech space, multi-billionaire, etc. So take a listen to

this. I think Peter was the person who told me this really pithy quote: that in a world that's

changing so quickly, the biggest risk you can take is not taking any risk. So if you're ready to lean into taking some

risk and picking up new powers in the AI age, let me show you exactly what these powers are and how you can master

them. The key to becoming an unstoppable AI generalist lies in mastering eight different AI skills, which can be

grouped into the four fundamental powers of the AI age that generalists can acquire. Firstly, we have the power to

build, which is creating software and tools. Then we have the power to automate, which is creating AI agents and

automating workflows. Then we have the power to create, generating professional-grade content, and finally, the power to connect, building influence and audience.

In this section, I'll show you exactly what each of these powers are, why they're so powerful, and the specific AI

skills and tools needed to acquire each, starting with the most fundamental: the power to build. Software runs the world. Every app,

website, digital tool that you use started with someone first building it. And so, for most of us, this world of

building has been locked away behind coding skills that we don't have. So think about the last time you had an

idea for some simple tool or website. Maybe you had, like, a calculator for some specific needs; you wanted a custom

booking system or a unique way to organize information just for yourself. So the old way would be to hire

a developer and pay them thousands of dollars, then wait weeks of constant back-and-forth and communication before

you finally get what you actually want. Now, using AI tools like Bolt and Replit Agent, you can build working software

just by describing what you want in plain English. Just the other day, I saw someone in my free community who built

his own AI voice agent ROI calculator thing that he intends to use for lead generation for his AI automation agency.

And he said that in just five minutes, he made this pretty clean-looking website that allowed him to generate more leads

for his business. And this is, of course, a basic example, but this guy would have normally had to go on Upwork

and hire a developer and spend weeks getting this thing made. Now, of course, these AI-built tools and softwares aren't as

polished as professional software, but they do work, and you can create some simple websites, calculators, or

trackers, or just tools for yourself in general or for your small business in just minutes instead of months and with

thousands of dollars spent.  These kinds of tools that allow you to build software are only getting better and

better and better, so soon people will be able to create entire businesses around AI-generated software. So now is the

perfect time to start learning how to use these kinds of AI-assisted development tools. Therefore, the only skill required to gain the power to

build is AI-assisted app development with builders like Bolt and Replit. In the final section of this video, I'll

explain how you can learn this skill and all of the others rapidly with a couple of resources that I've put together for

[Music] you. Building your own custom tools is really just the start of software; the real power comes from automating

repetitive work. Think about all the repetitive work that you do every day: you've got answering similar emails,

scheduling meetings, creating social posts, managing tasks, and updating spreadsheets. The old way was to either just do all of that yourself or to

The 8 AI Skills That Will Separate Winners From Losers in 2025

I’m a 23 year old AI entrepreneur from New Zealand. Sharing my learnings from running my own AI development company, AI SaaS and from helping my community of over 35,000 AI agency owners to start and scale their own AI business.

My mission is to inspire others to take advantage of the incredible AI opportunity by documenting my journey as an AI entrepreneur.


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