AI Hiring, AI Certification, and the 4-Day Week
Concrete insights from this week’s AI and work frontlines
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Happy Friday,
Hope your week’s been good! Mine has been all about kicking off leadership programs with a clear focus: how do you lead in an AI-driven world?
It’s something I’ve spent a lot of time on myself, both learning and teaching, and what makes it fun is that it’s not theory for theory’s sake. It’s a mix of practice and reflection, and you can really see the difference when leaders get their hands on it.
No buzzwords, no mumbo-jumbo, just concrete ways to lead when AI changes the game.
That’s also why I keep writing this newsletter. It’s my way of sharing what I see and learn, and if you think someone else would enjoy it, pass it on.
Think of it as forwarding a good song or buying a friend a coffee (only cheaper.)
Alright, let’s get to it.
🧠 Topics I’m engaging with
OpenAI is launching initiatives to expand economic opportunity by making AI tools widely accessible and helping people develop practical AI skills. Partnerships with major employers and organizations will connect AI-trained talent with job opportunities and provide free certifications through OpenAI Academy. The goal is to certify 10 million Americans in AI skills by 2030 and ensure a broader population benefits from the economic shifts driven by AI advancement
LinkedIn launches Hiring Assistant. LinkedIn introduces an AI-driven Hiring Assistant to streamline the recruitment process end-to-end. It integrates with your ATS, personalizes outreach, automates screening, and continuously improves through feedback, all while following strict compliance and AI safety standards.
AI labs and inequality. Time reports from a summit where OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and others debated whether a “social contract” is needed to address widening inequality from AI. The concern is that productivity gains concentrate at the top, while risks spread broadly. Interesting and for me, slightly new perspectives here.
AI in team meetings. HBR explores three ways AI tools can reshape collaboration: agenda-setting, participation monitoring, and summarization. Early experiments suggest less meeting fatigue, but risks include over-structuring creativity.
Nvidia on productivity and 4-day work week. Fortune covers Jensen Huang’s comments that AI could make the 4-day week not only possible but more productive. He frames AI as a “productivity multiplier,” raising questions about redistribution of time and value.
Managers using AI for HR decisions. ResumeBuilder finds that half of managers already use AI in decisions on promotions and terminations. Raises immediate governance and compliance concerns, especially under EU AI Act. Lots of very interesting data points here, especially for lead teams and CxOs.
What leaders can learn from ChatGPT’s first 1000 days. One entrepreneur argues that leadership lessons include experimentation at scale, fast iteration, and public engagement. A reminder that managing AI adoption is as much social as it is technical.
Mass intelligence. Ethan Mollick reflects on AI not just as “individual augmentation” but as a new form of collective intelligence. He calls it “mass intelligence,” where humans and AI systems think together at scale. As mentioned in the article above, the conclusion is that this is less about tools and more about how organizations reimagine cognition.
⚙️ Tools to try
Harriet - Harriet is an AI-powered platform that resolves employee requests instantly and tracks complex issues for HR and IT teams. It automates answers and manages tickets in one place.
Resea.ai – Research agent that scans and summarizes academic papers in seconds. Useful for HR leaders needing evidence fast, without spending hours searching databases.
50skills - A no-code platform that automates HR workflows with AI, helping teams save time on tasks like onboarding and offboarding without any coding.
🔁 Shorter updates
Comparison of Waymo Rider-Only Crash Rates by Crash Type to Human Benchmarks at 56.7 Million Miles. AI drivers are safer than human drivers.
AI stethoscope could detect major heart conditions in seconds
Chatbots are susceptible to flattery and peer pressure,
Microsoft unveils VibeVoice, enabling longer and more natural conversational AI audio.