LinkedIn released data in January projecting that by 2030, 70 percent of skills used in most jobs will change, due largely to artificial intelligence. The company's chief economic opportunity officer, Aneesh Raman, and its CEO, Ryan Roslansky, have introduced a new career framework they call the "climbing wall" model in their book "Open to Work: How to Get Ahead in the Age of AI."

"Workers are going to be climbing a wall, not a ladder," Raman said. The climbing wall model describes career paths that move in multiple directions based on individual skills and choices rather than following a linear progression. According to Raman, AI is breaking roles into tasks, automating some, reshaping others, and forcing workers to rethink how they build their careers.

He said workers should use AI to handle routine tasks so they can focus on collaboration, customer engagement, and proposing new ideas. Adapting to AI, he said, involves breaking jobs into their component tasks and rethinking AI's role in each one. The climbing wall model, according to Raman, gives workers more control over their careers by allowing them to build paths around their unique capabilities and curiosities.

"No one is going to come knock on your door and say, 'We've figured out what your job is in the AI era,'" he said. "You're going to have to figure that out."

He said workers should focus on adapting in real time instead of planning five or ten years ahead. "Don't worry about solving the 10-year because that's not even possible," he said. "Just worry about building today you into the tomorrow you."

Roslansky said there is no such thing as a linear career path and urged workers to focus less on job titles and more on evolving skills. "It's a reframing of what we historically thought it meant to be in a career, or what a career was made of," he said.

"What did I think I couldn't do that now, if I really embrace AI, I can actually do more of that?" he said, framing the question he believes workers should ask themselves.