Ernst & Young Is Paying $100 Million in Bonuses for Skills AI Can’t Replace

As artificial intelligence (AI) tools have been rolled out in workplaces around the country—to varying degrees of success—there has been a tendency for managers to treat AI usage as an end in and of itself, or at least a core metric worth incentivizing explicitly. This mindset has become so prevalent as to garner a name: "tokenmaxxing."

The professional services giant Ernst & Young, however, is taking a different tact. The Wall Street Journal reports EY's American division has set aside a whopping $100 million for employee awards and incentives related to fostering skills that AI cannot replace. (At least not yet.)

The bonus program is meant to reward EY staff who demonstrate traits such as "adaptability, innovation and judgment," WSJ reports—a seeming effort to hone human talent where machine learning cannot yet provide as much value add, rather than incentivizing the use of AI itself.

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