Post-MBB in an AI World

There's no shortage of talk around the innovations going on with AI and its impact. Even consulting companies are starting to invest in them, selling them as a service or product (PwC $1bn investment, BCG x Intel, Bain x OpenAI). Not only would this affect our current roles as we know it, it will probably disrupt traditional exit opportunities as well (Arctic AI's post on WSO PE forum, other consulting companies doing this as well).

I'll be starting in MBB post-undergrad and can't help but think how this changed my career trajectory. Wondering if anyone has any thoughts on how we can future-proof ourselves in such an environment (other than the generic learning prompt engineering and coding)? Or would everyone be some sort of data scientist at varying levels of technicality moving forward?

Curious to hear everyone's thoughts! P.S.: I'm not against AI being adopted but am in fact excited about it! Just wondering how a fellow monkey could value-add to the space in the future instead of turning into a developer

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