• AI is expected to take on tedious tasks and free humans to do more creative work.

• This will make it more important for tech workers to be good at collaboration and communication.

• This is bad news for tech workers who thrived as brilliant solitary jerks.

Whether or not AI ends up stealing people's jobs, it's undeniable that the rise of technology that can automate away many boring, tedious, mundane tasks is going to change the way we work.

With so much grunt work done automatically, employees will be expected to be more innovative and collaborative.

Those who get ahead in this new world, experts suggest, will be those with strong people skills who know how to bring teams together around an idea. That signals the end of one of tech's most enduring stereotypes: the brilliant, solitary jerk that nobody actually likes working with.

Experts said those who can bring both the expertise in working with AI and the "soft skills" that make someone a good teammate are the ones that will flourish in an increasingly AI-enabled world.

"To build something great, you need collaboration and conversation in addition to data science to make and build the best technology," said Diana Lee, founder of marketing firm Constellation. "What I notice with some data people is that they just want to throw as much data into a model without really understanding how it speaks to a problem."

The more AI becomes integrated into a workplace, those experts suggested, the more all workers can work with others to get more creative in solving issues.

Lee gives the hypothetical example of her own firm working with a larger brand on a marketing campaign. To make the project successful, everyone — including technical staff like data scientists or backend programmers — needs to buy in. Those who take the time and effort to listen to the client and work with them to make sure they're all on the same page will be the ones who set themselves apart in the workplace.

That doesn't leave a lot of room for the brilliant jerks who struggle to treat their colleagues and customers with respect. They may be very smart, perhaps even visionary, but with AI handling much of the actual hard work, they stand to lose whatever sway they had over the team.