On teams where turning to AI instead of a colleague is the norm, trust drops 21.9%, per @BetterUp Labs and @Stanford research in HBR. I would love to see us measure the team impact more frequently, not only the person.
hbr.org/2026/10/team-dynamic…
68% of senior leaders at big companies expect AI to leave them better off in five years, but only 27% of workers do.
We won't close that with a rollout plan. We close it by asking people what's broken.
nytimes.com/2026/10/24/busin…
Jason Averbook retweeted
A huge thank you and kudos to
🌟 @jasonaverbook
🌟 @ateetjayaswal
🌟 @kathi_enderes
🌟 @MarkSpratt
...and the @HRTechConf HR community for an unforgettable week!
Why do we measure how many layoffs happen because of AI but are not tracking how many direct hires are happening in jobs that didnt exist a year ago because of AI? I am sure we are but the press doesnt pick that up!
Hiring is going AI-first.
Job seekers: what's one thing you've built or done with AI you'd put in front of a hiring manager today?
Drop it below. Hiring managers, take a look.
If you want to hire AI-native talent, use this Grok @bot.
Only .2% of people are considered 'AI-native', so how do you find them? Hint: it's not going to be traditional talent managers because they're just too slow.
Our talent bots:
• Manage our applicant tracking system (ATS)
• Pre-screen based on our criteria (e.g. 2 promotions ideally at 2 different companies; avg 3 year tenure)
• If they're interested, we send 7 pre-screening questions and apologize in advance, saying we are only looking for AI-native individuals
• Then we use Jev to eval based on their responses
• Best ones get shortlisted for a real screening call
This re-imagines the hiring process by saving both sides a ton of time. Around 37.5% of people respond to the 7 pre-screening questions, and only 4% pass the screen
In the video below, you’ll see the actual workflow and the early report, including zero graded passes and zero bookings on a new run.
Just remember that someone still has to check the permissions, missed runs, and missing records, then keep improving it. It ain't all sunshine and rainbows right now, but it will be soon.
Bot link in first comment.
00:00 Why talent is the X factor
01:19 How Grokbot and Jev fit together
04:02 Inside the recruiting workflow
05:43 Sourcing, screening and outreach
08:00 Why I keep the hiring decision
10:54 The seven screening questions
14:00 Reading the funnel report
15:13 Why you need a bot manager
15:47 What’s working
16:10 What still needs work
Every one of these companies says AI.
Ask them one question:
Which work did AI take over before you cut the people doing it?
If they can't answer, it wasn't AI.
AI LAYOFFS BOOMING? Look again.
When I started this account (hence the name Layoff AI), Block had just laid off 40% of their staff and stock price went up.
What I've learned since is how much AI is just used as an excuse. Over hiring, cheap foreign labor, or just the desire to downsize came up much more often.
Take AMEX for example. They employ over 22,000 in their INDIA GCC, their largest office. Visa filings booming. This has nothing to do with AI.
AI efficiencies ARE REAL, and are growing within businesses.
The real problem is we have not even scratched the surface of what those layoffs may look like, and these companies are using it as a cover to continue to place blame.
AI just out-reviewed the reviewers.
AI can. Our job is to define the SHOULD.
Judgment is a deployment skill.
Now: know where to click.
Next: know when to challenge.
Who on your team is practicing the second one?
AI could make quality education accessible to everyone.
This chart highlights a global challenge: better education often comes at a higher cost, while affordability doesn’t always guarantee better outcomes.
AI could change the equation with personalised tutors, adaptive learning, and tools that help teachers do more.
The real opportunity isn’t to replace teachers. It’s to make better learning accessible to more people.
At 10xme, we believe the same principle applies beyond education: AI should be practical, accessible, and powerful enough to multiply human potential.
The future belongs to those who know how to work with AI, not just use it.
🚀 Learn to make AI that actually works for you.
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We’re getting faster with AI, but I’m not convinced we’re getting better.
There is a huge difference between using AI to produce an answer and using AI to become more capable of solving the next problem. If the technology does the thinking for us, we might improve productivity today while creating a workforce that is less prepared for tomorrow.
Dr. @neuraltheory and I got into this in Episode 3 of Now to Next: The Signal, and she challenged a few assumptions I think executives need to reconsider.
We talked about automators, centaurs, and cyborgs, and why simply putting a human in the loop doesn't necessarily improve the outcome. We also talked about what happens to early-career development when AI starts doing the work people used to learn from.
One of the most important questions Vivienne raised is where the next generation of talent comes from if we no longer need people to do the work that traditionally developed their expertise.
That should concern every leader making decisions about workforce strategy, organizational design, and AI investment. I believe AI should expand human capability, but that doesn't happen automatically because we give everyone access to better tools. We have to deliberately design the work, the learning, and the leadership practices that make people better.
Otherwise, we may be celebrating productivity while quietly weakening the very workforce we're counting on to create what's next.
Full episode: youtu.be/XMDU3uhEel8
Jason Averbook retweeted
Anthropic’s new report is a wake-up call for job seekers.
TL;DR:
• Junior tech hires: 27% → 9%.
• AI skills cited 3–4x more in hiring reviews
• Build your own automations. Show the receipts
• Judgment > narrow expertise
• Autonomy > following instructions
Your best credential is not what you know, it’s how much you can automate yourself.
Today, we're publishing two new findings from inside Anthropic: how work and hiring are changing at a company at the frontier of AI adoption, and how Anthropic staff expect AI to change the economy.
anthropic.com/research/expec…
I saw a question on X from a dinner full of AI founders, and I can't shake it.
If a new model drops next month, does your company get better or worse?
I'd ask it the same thing about your people.
A lot of companies are buying licenses and calling it transformation. The tools change every few months anyway.
It's like a new phone. If you only memorized where the buttons were, every update leaves you lost. If you get how it works, you're fine in five minutes.
If your people get better when the model gets better, you invested in them. If they get worse or stay the same , you bought software.
A few things I'd do this quarter:
* Ask one team what they do differently than six months ago
* Give managers an hour a week to try stuff with their people
* When a model updates, rerun one real task and see what changed
* Ask "what did you learn to do with AI?" in every one-on-one
The tools will keep changing. Your people should keep getting better.
So, would yours?
There is a big difference between automating some of the work people do today and job elimination. Fascinating how fast we jump to the negative.
When will we learn we can’t put a tool on top of old thinking
Anthropic cut its junior tech hiring by two-thirds. Their own report says so.
Junior technical hires went from 27% to 9%.
AI agents now log 6 hours for every 1 human hour. Meeting time is up 20%.
One in five staff say their job is now managing Claudes instead of doing the work.
The machines produce, the seniors review all day, and the entry-level jobs that train the next seniors are drying up.
Every "AI efficiency" story on earnings calls this quarter has this underneath it… but ask how many juniors they hired.
Pre-announcing layoffs to Wall Street tells your people one thing: start looking. If AI is freeing up capacity, say where it's going first. Save. Reinvest. Reinvent. Fear is the most expensive and worst cultural thing you can put in a workforce.
The layoffs are coming; the layoffs are coming.
A new trend emerging in our workplaces is what the WSJ calls "the looming layoff." Companies like #Starbucks and #Nike are pre-announcing layoffs to Wall Street (to show they are serious about right-sizing) and to employees who instantly pivot into fear due to anxiety about being affected -- and never knowing when layoffs are coming.
Seriously one of the most self-harming #leadership moves because of how it undermines employee #WellBeing.
Funny, what's never mentioned are hiring freezes or other ways to preserve jobs and cut costs.
#Leadership #HR #SHRM #Business
The real finding isn't that the tutor was faster. It's that students finally asked the questions they were embarrassed to ask in class. That's what a good teacher does, and it scales now.
앞으론 진짜 비싼 돈주고 대학이나 유학
갈 필요없어질지도 모름.
하버드 물리학과에서 학부생 194명 데리고
꿀잼 실험하나 돌렸는데 결과가 꽤 충격적임.
두그룹으로 나눠 수업방식을 극단적으로 갈라봄.
A팀은 (하버드식 대면 수업 )
교수님 지도하에 다같이 모여서 토론하고
문제푸는 정통 방식임
B팀은 (세팅진행한 AI한테 과외)
정답 말할때까지 무한역질문만 던지도록
세팅끝내놓은 1타 강사 AI
결과가 어땠을까?
AI랑 1:1로 빡공한 B팀이 대면 수업들은 A팀보다
개념 이해도 향상폭이 무려 2배나 높게 나옴.
똑같은 목표진도 걸린시간은 30%나 덜 걸렸음.
이유는 간단함.
강의실에서 남들 눈치 보느라 못하던 멍청한
질문도 AI한텐 무한대로 할수 있고 철저하게
내 페이스에 맞춰서 진도를 뺄수 있으니까
몰입도랑 효율이 미쳐버린거임.




















