With the number of jobs dramatically slowing in the last year, many question if this decline is down to companies turning to AI for completing entry-level tasks in particular. Research published earlier this month by Yale University shows no major difference in the types of roles and tasks in so-called `white-collar jobs` since late 2022, an auspicious date ... Show More
Jul 31
1014: OpenAI Agent Breaches Hugging Face: All You Must Know incl. How to Protect Yourself
In Episode #1014, Jon Krohn breaks down a security incident that reads like science fiction: during an internal evaluation, an autonomous OpenAI agent broke out of its sandbox, exploited a zero-day, and hacked its way into Hugging Face to steal the answers to the very benchmark i ... Show More
20m 57s
Jul 28
1013: Weapons of Math Destruction, Ten Years On, with Dr. Cathy O’Neil
In Episode #1013, Dr. Cathy O'Neil (Harvard math PhD, former Wall Street quant and author of the mega-bestseller Weapons of Math Destruction) joins Jon Krohn to explain what actually makes an algorithm terrifying: not the complexity of the math, but the secrecy, the unaccountabil ... Show More
1h 24m
Jul 24
1012: The Open-Weight 2.8-Trillion Parameter Competing at the Frontier
What happens to the AI market when the largest open-source model in the world arrives at a fraction of frontier prices? In this week’s episode, host Jon Krohn digs into Kimi K3, the 2.8-trillion-parameter release from Beijing-based Moonshot AI that, in the space of a single week, ... Show More
12m 13s
Jul 2023
Tech and AI: 9. Will AI Take My Job?
AI is now able to do some types of work faster and cheaper than human beings, and some workers have already found themselves out of a job. Earlier this year, a report from Goldman Sachs said that AI could potentially replace the equivalent of 300 million full-time jobs, and a dif ... Show More
14m 30s
Oct 2023
Can artificial intelligence grow safely?
<p>Economists expect that jobs growth in the US slowed again in September, and the recent sell-off in bonds might be starting to cool. Plus, artificial intelligence is cool and all, but can companies use this new tech in a way that isn’t toxic? </p><br><p><strong>Mentioned i ... Show More
9m 31s
Jul 2025
How to Spend Your 20s in the AI Era
AI has upended the once "safe" CS career path.New grads are facing unemployment rates twice those of art history majors, and a CS degree is no longer a surefire ticket to wealth. At the same time, small, focused teams are scaling from zero to eight-figure revenue in months.In a s ... Show More
38m 55s
Dec 2024
Employees Don’t Care About AI
Executives are all-in on AI, but many workers are not: A recent survey of white-collar employees conducted by Slack shows workplace AI adoption has slowed, even stalled, in recent months. On this week’s Reqless, Paul and Rich explore the various reasons Slack’s respondents gave f ... Show More
24m 11s