Taku's Blog++: What AI can't do → "The 5 Cs of human strength"

Check out Takumi’s NEW English youtube channel🎵

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https://www.youtube.com/@takuway

This is happening tomorrow~
Last-minute drop-ins welcome

Feel free to just show up!!!

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July 12th (Sun)

"Matsuri Uta ~When Life Shines Bright~"

This time the theme is

"When Life Shines Bright"

Not just listening to music —

A time to face what's inside you

A time to pray

A time to feel your connection with others

And through "matsuri," a time to feel life pulsing and everyone becoming one

That's the kind of time we want to create

If you've been feeling a little low lately

If you want to take a new first step

If you're at a turning point in life

And if you simply love matsuri

This is a stage we especially want people like you to experience

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🎐 Matsuri Uta

~When Life Shines Bright~

🎼 Performers

✦ Miho Senoo

(melodica & piano)

✦ Sorane

(melodica ensemble)

Members:

Tomoaki Asao / Masayo Chiba / Micaco / Ana / Kyo Tosaka / Mari Suzuki / Reiko Maekawa / Kana Nakagawa

Guests

✦ Motohiro Shionoya

(percussion)

✦ Rika Matsunami

(wadaiko)

📅 July 12th (Sun)

Doors open 13:00

Show starts 13:30

📍 STAR PINE'S CAFE

〒180-0004

1-20-16 Kichijoji Honcho, Musashino-shi, Tokyo

(3-min walk from Kichijoji Station North Exit, JR / Keio Inokashira Line)

🎫 Venue tickets

https://tiget.net/events/490667

💻 Streaming tickets (¥3,300 / archive available)

https://eplus.jp/sf/detail/4538070001-P0030001

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Even if you can't make it to the venue, we'd love for you to join us via the stream

On July 17th (Fri) at 20:00, we're also hosting a "Behind-the-Scenes Talk" where we'll watch the archive together with everyone who tuned in to the stream, sharing stories about the performances and the creative process ✨

July 12th

A day where life resonates with life — delivered with all our heart

The film "The Motivation Switch" —
casting has begun~

Who is interested to attend this？！

I cut my hair.

Thanks for carrying my bag!

Thank you

Video shoot of Theater Yakiimo

Watch the short dramas here

Thank you

Today was shoot was at a bar

Thank you!

"Entry-level jobs have started to disappear"

—AI entered the execution phase without warning

✦ Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has publicly stated: "Roughly 50% of entry-level white-collar jobs could disappear within a few years"

✦ U.S. employment data for June 2026: Overall employment is growing, but a 16% decline has already been confirmed in AI-affected occupations among 22–25 year olds
✦ In Japan, too, the unemployment rate for 20–24 year olds has risen to 9.3% (August 2025). Call center, translation, and data entry jobs are vanishing in real time

"The young person sitting next to you might be gone a year from now"

"Scared of AI?"

"What Kind of Person Has Value in this age of AI?"

"Even when AI comes — what is my value?"

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Humanity, empathy, philosophy — that conversation is a blue ocean

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Reference

References

✦ AI Job Disruption — Gallup Survey — AI Japan Index
✦ Anthropic Redeploying Fable 5
✦ Meta Watermelon matches GPT-5.5
✦ In the AI era, things only humans can do hold value — Forbes JAPAN
✦ White-Collar Jobs 2026 AI Statistics
✦ 2026 Training Trends — Business Masters
✦ AI Agents Driving Corporate Transformation — Forbes JAPAN
✦ The Reality of Entry-Level Job Disappearance — AI Changing Work

The 5C's of Human Power

Curiosity
AI can process patterns. But only a human can ask, "What if we tried a completely different approach?" The polio vaccine and the iPhone were both born from questions no one else was asking.

Courage
AI can calculate risk. But only a human can decide, "That risk is worth taking." The power to move without complete information, to push forward when outcomes aren't guaranteed.

Creativity
AI can remix what already exists. But only a human can "imagine something that didn't exist." Steve Jobs didn't invent the computer — he imagined, "What if we combined them into one?"

Compassion
AI can mimic empathy. But only a human can truly feel it and express it. Because we still haven't fully understood how the human brain generates empathy, AI can't be programmed to replicate it.

Communication
AI can translate language. But only a human can turn words into "meaning." "I have a dream" wasn't information — it sparked a movement.

The key point: These have long been called "soft skills," but the article states it plainly:

"The more AI takes over routine tasks, the more the value of distinctly human abilities rises. These skills can't be acquired in a weekend workshop. They can only be developed through time, connection, and challenge."

What Takumi Yamazaki delivers on stage — courage, compassion, dreams, human strength — is precisely these 5 Cs. It aligns completely with what LinkedIn and Microsoft have defined as "the skills of the future."

Sources:

✦ The essential human skills for AI success? Focus on the 5Cs — Microsoft WorkLab