Half Staff

“CEOs have spent months whispering about how their businesses could likely be run with a fraction of the current staff. Technologies including automation software, AI and robots are being rolled out to make operations as lean and efficient as possible.” WSJ (Gift Article): CEOs Start Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud: AI Will Wipe Out Jobs. “Ford chief predicts AI will replace ‘literally half of all white-collar workers.'” (If you haven’t already heard that AI will reduce jobs, you haven’t been listening.)

+ “He counted six people on the call including himself, Sellers recounted in an interview. The 10 others attending were note-taking apps powered by artificial intelligence that had joined to record, transcribe and summarize the meeting.” WaPo (Gift Article): No one likes meetings. They’re sending their AI note takers instead. (Now we just need AI to delete those notes and we’ll be good…)