For all the talk about AI revolutionizing jobs, widespread workforce displacement has yet to happen. But there’s growing consensus that’s about to change. 

The focus should be on specific use cases vs giving all staff their own AI tools and hoping for results. 

Agentic AI represents the beginning of "the autonomous enterprise era" and will "liberate thousands of hours of effort a year."

The all-stock merger valued xAI at $80 billion and X at $45 billion (including $12 billion of debt). Does xAI now have an advantage with proprietary access to X’s data?

The shift to AI is “very profound and even a little bit scary — because it’s happening very quickly, and there is no upper bound.” 

The founders defected from OpenAI, started Anthropic, and built (they say) AI’s most upstanding citizen, Claude.

According to an Adecco Group and Oxford Economics poll which interviewed 2,000 executives, 41% expected to employ fewer people due to AI.

College educations are turning out to be insufficient to guarantee a good job for a candidate, and after years of racking up student debt in order to get a degree, many are finding that the jobs just aren’t there. 

Designed to function like a personal data scientist, the Analyst agent can process diverse data sources, including Excel files, CSVs, and embedded tables in documents, generating insights through code execution and visualization.

The pivot at Moody’s: “Standing still actually posed a far higher risk to the company’s future than aggressively adopting a highly imperfect technology.”

AI is being used to automate campaign setup, optimize performance, cutting weeks-long processes down to hours.

The proliferation of artificial intelligence tools and overreliance on software such as ChatGPT is making the job market increasingly surreal.

Goldman Sachs received 315,126 applications for its 2024 internships. That same year, Google received over 3 million applications, and McKinsey got more than 1 million. Between 2014 and 2022, the Indian government received 220.5 million applications for central government jobs. They’re all turning to AI for help, but have to manage the consequences. 

Unclear objectives, insufficient data readiness, and a lack of in-house expertise are sinking many AI proofs of concept. So too are zealous POC greenlighting and misguided pressure from the top.  

Joseph Fuller, professor of management practice at Harvard Business School and co-founder of the consulting firm Monitor Group, explains how AI is reshaping the landscape of career advancement.