Perspectives on AI Safety, Rogue Bots, and the Frontier Lab Slowdown
We are all living in a world of “beta products” from AI vendors, and whether we like it or not we’re stuck with the risks. Today I weigh in...
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The AI-Fueled Labor Shortage and Why HR Is Now A Growth Function
Guess what. There is no AI jobs apocalypse, there’s an AI-fueled labor shortage. And this means human capital and leadership strategies will...
AI Pacesetter: Seneca Polytechnic Transforms HR As Frontier Firm
What do you do when the funding that anchored your HR transformation disappears unexpectedly? For Seneca Polytechnic, a public college with...
Labor Day 2035: Why Workers Will Become More Valuable Than Ever
The BLS forecasts an almost flat growth in the labor market in the next decade yet US GDP is expected to grow by 22-24% cumulatively. In ord...
Inside Databricks: The Dynamic Learning Operation That Fuels Hypergrowth
Rochana Golani, VP of Enablement at Databricks, is one of the most innovative and business-focused learning executives I’ve met. In this act...
Workday Earnings Call: Company Is Moving Swiftly To An AI Future
Workday’s Q2 2027 earnings were a pivot point, showing how Workday has shifted to its “AI-Forward Future.” The company reported $600 Million...
Security Of Enterprise Agents, Frontier Labs Challenged, Superworker Wages
Today I review the various jailbreaks by both OpenAI and Anthropic and the challenges which Frontier Labs are having with AI “alignment.” So...
Post-AI Labor Market Appears, How To Prioritize AI Investments, More
Today I share some research we’re doing on wages in the inflationary “AI-economy.” While many people are studying the labor market (it’s a h...
Does AI Have Consciousness?
This week I wade into a global philosophical debate about whether advanced AI systems have consciousness. In other words, are they aware of...
The New, Post-AI, World Of Employment: How Everything Has Changed
I’ve been talking with hundreds of companies about AI and employee issues, and in many ways the entire world of HR, management, and leadersh...
The Messy World of AI-Powered Recruiting Where Nobody Is Happy
AI-powered recruiting has so much potential, yet job seekers, recruiters, and executives remain frustrated. This massive $100+ billion marke...
Workday, Zuckerberg, Galileo, and Frontline Work
Today I discuss Workday and the potential Silver Lake buyout, Meta’s personal AI strategy and it’s potential for business, update on Galileo...
Despite Massive AI Spending, HR Jobs Are Booming. What's Up?
The job market is changing in unpredictable ways. Human Resources, a profession often considered optional and filled with bureaucracy, has b...
Why Vertical and Domain Specific AI is the Biggest Business Opportunity of Them All.
As AI experts leave Google and new startups emerge, engineers are consumed with Superintelligence: building models that can reason, learn, a...
Living A High Agency Life: How Should Companies Respond?
The word of the decade is “Agency” – giving each of us the power, tools, and opportunity to do what we want with our life, jobs, and careers...
Elon Musk Believes AI Will Exceed Human Intelligence In Five Years. Here's Why I Disagree.
The word “intelligence” is a loaded word. Here’s what Elon Musk said to the Economist last week: “I think AI may exceed the sum of human int...
Open Source Models: An Exciting New Business Model For Enterprise AI
New names: Kimi K3, Llama, Nemotron, Mistral, Cohere, Deepseek, Phi-4 – these are just a few of the fast-growing open source models from maj...
How People & Culture Accelerate Growth and Innovation at SharkNinja, Elizabeth Norberg.
SharkNinja is one of the most fascinating, innovative, high-performing companies I’ve seen. Elizabeth Norberg, the People and Culture leader...
The AI Jailbreak, Implications for Business Agents, And Skills Model for Users of AI
This week we learned of OpenAI’s Jailbreak security breach, which opens the door to many new issues with enterprise AI and HR 2030. This wee...
New SHL Assessment Identifies Skills For AI-Ready Workforce
SHL, one of the pioneers in industrial and psychological assessment, has now built a new instrument to assess an individual’s readiness for...