Many have predicted that as AI improves, it will commoditize technical skills and knowledge, but accentuate the things that make us human—things like our empathy and connection with other human beings. Or our ability to communicate.

But there’s something too blunt, too lazy and too generalized about those observations in the face of mounting evidence showing that large language models are often better than humans at “performing” things with empathy—what we’ve thought of as “human skills.”