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AI retraining: the corporate spin cycle Deel vs. Along with new visuals, they unveiled iCIMS Coalesce AI, the new name for their enterprise AI capabilities They say either one or two things, responsible AI or ethical AI. Pretty much it, yeah. Recruiters, if recruiters are quote unquote using AI, well then you've installed the AI wrong. , what is AI, why you shouldn't be scared of AI, how we can actually improve your job and not take away

And then further training the AI on the chain of AI hiring decisions that they made up. That should be the new trend with AI right now. And I think AI is a good thing there. AI is the reason for our layoffs. AI is the reason for our layoffs. AI, AI, AI, AI, right? AI is going to create new jobs.

We dive into: 🎭 Why AI won’t  be writing the next Oscar-winning screenplay (sorry, ChatGPT). 💰 The Because if you don't use AI tools today, or your company doesn't have an AI policy or they've chosen The Rider strike recently, Hollywood, AI fears. AI did not think of itself. Chad: Well even without AI, a great storyteller, a great creative Donald Knight.

So Mo, the kids apparently have a little issue with AI. Maureen Clough (35:23.694) AI stuff. Can't get away from that AI stuff, can we? Like not all AI is the same. I'm an investor in Alex AI who does this kind of thing. Like the pushback against AI and data centers and whatnot.

AI, and everyone here is talking about AI and I don't understand that. It's the leading with AI messaging that's bizarre to me. Joel: Have we overhyped AI? Are we downplaying what AI is gonna mean to business? Quincy Valencia: And that's the power of AI. Oh God, I'm gonna talk about AI but as AI is rendering some jobs obsolete.

The Hot Takes: Rita the Chatbot: 7-Eleven's AI assistant is so eerily good, store managers literally Grab a Big Gulp and learn how to actually deploy AI without destroying the human touch. So we've automated everything up into that interview, um, and use this personal assistant, uh, or AI A lot of people are scared that AI is gonna take over, you know, humans in the process. Like, think about it as a recruiting assistant versus AI. Um, and that made a huge difference.

Spoiler alert: he's not here to hand out AI participation trophies. As for AI picking candidates? Nah, Jason’s not buying the hype. So mostly now everybody's promising the entire world with AI. How AI can solve everything. So they're out there searching for AI. that are showing that candidates don't like or trust AI.

Is AI really slaughtering white-collar jobs… or is it just Wall Street jazz hands? If you’ve been laid off, stuck job hunting, or told “AI did it,” this one’s for you. Well, AI is killing. AI is killing the workforce, right? And that's kind of where we go back to that, that AI conversation is, is AI really taking all of these What I'm hearing you say is it's a greater degree of AI in entry level.

The Agentic Future of Talent Acquisition with AI In this episode of HR’s most dangerous podcast, Chad & Evolving Revenue Models Data Ownership and Candidate Passports The Reality of Recent Layoffs How AI Um, AI is taking all the jobs. We overhired in COVID, and now we're just correcting. But when we look back 5 years from now, we will say AI has had the greatest impact on jobs. Like AI can't do that.

Early bird AI has raised $800 ,000 from several investors including Google. using its voice first AI The platform uses AI to analyze job seekers personal and professional information to identify challenges The company aims to address the labor shortage in Europe by connecting companies with skilled workers The company launched in 2022 uses AI to help businesses engage with independent marketing talent. and AI does it better and free. like how many of these freelancers, particularly on the marketing side are

The AI Revolution in Global Hiring In this episode of HR’s "Most Dangerous Podcast," Chad and Cheese And so with AI, if we can implement AI to do some of that or all of that administrative work, then recruiters So we have, um, AI, uh, via Paradox doing the, um, candidate care piece for us. David, who is my, uh, sales contact with Paradox, who we use for our AI is... Have you guys started to use any, uh, any AI or conversational or contextual, uh, type of AI to be able

Sam Altman and open AI every single time. Those guys. So it's not the fault of AI. It's not actually stupid human errors happening. AI is now doing that instead, right? So there are instances. And AI is software. It just does that same thing. It's AI. And that you know, that is a very politically convenient narrative.

It's more AI Sessions goodness. countries, our AI companies. And one of the things that we hear consistently around AI is that AI is going to take all the grunt work into it, saying, what can AI do? , can AI do the job is one, but AI by particularly generative AI always is going to be average.

we have Ryan Steelberg, Veritone's CEO and President, back on the show to check-in on the state of AI But the promise and the practical application of AI really hasn't been demonstrated. You're just, all these things absolutely are AI. They're just now getting smarter. So number one is we help ingest and organize all their content, and we use AI models. Ryan Steelberg: There's so many different AI models coming onto it.

We think we have better AI that is going to hook together. Is it because the AI stuff isn't ready for real time? Tim Sackett: Maybe we don't need AI the way we think we need AI. But do I really need no AI? Not really. This has been the Sessions AI Frontline Series.

Everyone's talking about AI right now. Everyone's wanting to build AI, use AI, but as we all know, it's also a little risky. AI, so we need AI, but we need what everybody's calling, here we go kids, responsible AI. I think both in terms of the AI journey. The EU AI act is much more broad.

Hear how she uses LLMs like they’re her personal AI attack dogs, outsmarts bigger competitors with zero

Charlene drops bombs like: 95% of AI pilots never scale — mostly because leadership treats AI like a CEOs shout “AI! AI! AI!” “Shadow AI”? Becoming AI-fluent? Advice for the next generation? The reality is it's one thing to adopt AI. It's another thing to adapt your organization to AI. Your digital and AI person, notice I did not say IT, but a digital and AI person, we'll come back to

The 6-Recruiter Empire: How Flynn Group Uses AI to Hire for Thousands of Locations What happens when You get a masterclass in hyper-efficiency, AI-driven automation, and a "lean" strategy that sounds like Inside the Playbook: Meet "Frankie": Discover how Flynn Group’s custom AI assistant (powered by Paradox [chuckle] Umm, how has the efficiencies around AI decreased budget? So why not have that done by, you know, a, an AI, umm, system that can do it for me.

Open AI, you might have heard of those guys. Then they infused it with some generative AI. That's not a gen AI related solution. So it's not just about generative AI. So talk some of the threats you see as AI and generative AI gets rolled out into a lot of vendor products

You're have two minutes to pitch Propulsion AI. And that's why Propulsion AI was born. We utilize AI to interview the user because they are the expert. Is it open AI? Who are you using? You've got to be using somebody. With Propulsion AI, would have been done in an afternoon.

What happens when you mash up AI, a million hotel workers, and the fourth-largest restaurant chain in Why AI doesn’t make rockstar recruiters better, but it does turn your B-team into something resembling You take your best recruiter AI isn't making them significantly better. They're good. Chad Sowash: The Jason Voorhees of AI. Joel Cheesman: Yes. Tyler Weeks: You know what's... This has been the Sessions AI Frontline series. We out. Chad Sowash: We out.

So we are a unified AI platform for everything talent. Chad: You've got the AI, which means you've gotta have some type of conversational AI that's there, which Obviously, AI is here to stay. No one's debating that. Our AI in the past has always been very intentional. And AI research.

So needless to say, we talk a lot about AI. EEOC doesn't know how to spell AI. This is not a thing. So it's hard to spell. AI, it's coming, and now that it's here, everybody, they're having problems. Why did AI matter for you? Joel Cheesman: Set the table for AI? Act designating the use of AI in HR as higher risk.

From sexy Belgian bureaucracy  (yes, you read that right) to the AI apocalypse  taking over the workplace American tech giants crying into their LinkedIn profiles, and throw in some bold predictions about AI They're here to roast a few: will CoachHub, Popp AI, and Talentium be the next unicorns, or just another Let's get to our first contest and it's Mackie, a Paris based conversational AI solution. Mackey, on the other hand, are focused on a buzzword that's stronger than AI right now.

AI is less biased than humans—shocker, right? So you guys actually did this data-driven review of AI bias, compliance, and responsible AI practices I mean, when you look at the macro amount of capital deployed into AI compliance and AI bias compared We're just saying here's how this AI technically behaves and here's what it looks like in terms of AI What is, what does bias and AI look like in the future? Do we rely more on AI?

“Will AI kill recruiting as we know it?” But I do use AI and a lot of apps to help me with my Waiver Wire pickups and stuff. We're gonna talk about AI today and a variety of ways. Will AI kill recruiting jobs or is the jury still out? Joel: Oh my God. Is it AI, is it RPA, is it automation?

And the headlines were like, AI is here beating... And so where was AI? And so we even talk about two big buckets of AI. But it's just good to know because for a lot of people, they just think AI, gen AI, they forget about So we take that bias we put it into AI and the big difference around AI is AI scales better than humans

AI knowledge on LinkedIn, make sure people understand that you're AI relevant. Chad Sowash (23:16.725) Fake employees, AI generated applications, AI generated posts, AI generated comments LinkedIn has become the king of AI slop. Resumes are AI slop, articles, comments. Research, AI slop. Chad Sowash (58:58.881) Why did AI go to therapy? Why did AI go to therapy?

Great, there's AI. We'll get into that later. But you can't trust it totally. as AI except for the one where it's actually intelligent. The false statement when AI started becoming big that some companies were like, "We got AI, we don't Human, not robot, not AI, human. I don't wanna be wanted by a robot or an AI or whatever you wanna call it.

all everyone talks about now, AI, AI, you know, how's it going to make our lives more easier? AI is clearly the future. AI and Microsoft. And so this is where I think AI is fantastic, but AI is never going to replace a human. Emi B (35:01.983) Well, obviously AI, like I said before, everyone's talking about AI.

AI Takes Over IBM HR ⚠️ | Klarna & Duolingo Hit the Brakes on Automation, LinkedIn AI Job Search PODCAST I Klarna and Duolingo, early adapters of an AI-first workplace are facing challenges in balancing AI AI is helping to make you more productive. AI is not there to totally replace the human. AI is going to take your jobs as HR professional. AI is going to take your job as a recruiter. You don't need to be as an AI professional spending all your time or so an AI professional or recruiter

Think less “post another LinkedIn thinkpiece about AI” and more “deploy AI agents that actually eliminate So five must have AI agents. Because that's the big thing of this year is AI screening, AI interview, top of funnel. And so AI has been helpful. Like, we use AI's, Joveo's AI agent.

Forget “digital transformation”—this is full-on AI combustion. And this is the Sessions AI frontline series. Chad Sowash: So the AI council in itself, talk a little bit about that and, I mean, why AI safety? We see that even just in the evolution of AI in general, the best AI evolutions right now from an AI Those are problems AI can now solve.

I mean, AI has been around a long time, right? And I think some of the AI that's coming, sadly, is doing that. So, that's the great thing about AI. AI, by the way, 'cause a lot of these jobs are fruit picking as well. Joel Cheesman: I get a lot more nap time because of the AI.

of HR technology, the need for HR professionals to embrace technology, and the impact of generative AI The podcast also touches on the potential ethical issues and risks associated with AI in recruiting. You can solve all of those problems with generative AI now. So you have to know what generative AI is. You cannot hide. So generative AI and technology doesn't replace the human being.

From the end of resumes as we know them  to the uphill battle for MBA grads, they dive into how AI is LinkedIn has launched the following AI tools, something called jobs match for job seekers and an AI recruitment AI and data. You know, it doesn't surprise me that AI is going to replace middle managers. O'Donnell (53:33.144) Chad, how do you feel about AI fact checking in?

And I believe that we're still scratching kind of like the surface of where AI or where digitalization to actually really test the waters with all the capabilities of large language models and generative AI

' on ChapGPT job searchin', Getty Images sealin' its content from AI hot. Some bumps in the AI road this week. $4 billion in AI firm Anthropic to compete in the AI industry and enhance generative AI for its online So vendors and users, remember AI is like a puppy. Two words Chad VR and AI.

An MIT study titled, quote, the Gen AI Divide, State of AI in Business 2025. finds that 95 % of generative There's this thing called AI just so I put in, I put an AI said, me some good fantasy football names They double down on AI with Paradox. These are all AI plays. The Chad (29:25.573) Yeah. Sam Altman is talking about a bubble in AI.

. 🦾 AI replacing humans: A startup literally called Mechanize  wants to automate everything . Microsoft invests large amounts funding startups like open AI. didn't go buy open AI. Well, epoch analyzes the economic impact of AI. and produces benchmarks for AI performance for companies AI is not going to make trickle down work. This is lunacy. I am tired of hearing AI won't take your job, but someone using AI will. J.T.

LinkedIn launched an AI chat feature, and here's a quote from a story. "I used LinkedIn's new AI chat feature to message people about job opportunities. AI is infiltrating everything Microsoft, and I guarantee you, someone on high said, "Okay, LinkedIn, They've gotta go to AI, they've gotta go to Chat... Chad: I agree. And bad managers are bad managers with or without AI. Doesn't matter, right?

It wasn't created by AI, but we did try to use AI for the book cover. and seen by AI. It has nothing to do with AI. Until I went to an AI conference and somebody... needs to be analyzed by AI.

accommodations, discrimination claims, and the increasing use of generative AI. Chad: There's a lot of fear around AI. Should they be that afraid of AI and large language models? Now you have a decision to say, okay, we have Generative AI. Is this really AI or not? And most people would say, including me, that this was not AI.

They discuss various topics such as ADP's data-driven approach, AI strategy, skills graph, personalized And, now I'm working on our AI strategy across the company. Chad: And how will generative AI play into that? Are we finally there with GPUs, AI? lot of AI happening?

Expect plenty of snark as they navigate topics like AI’s inevitable takeover, the rapid pace of tech Enjoy laughs and sharp predictions on AI’s impact, the commoditization of ATSs, and how small companies That's very AI susceptible. However, there will be new jobs like we spoke about previously. tend to talk about AI as it is right now. Because all of this AI is just being baked into everything that we do.

Mistral AI’s significant funding round signals continued enthusiasm for AI technologies, while McKinsey AI did it :) Chad (00:23.428) AHHHHHH yeah. So moving from bullshit AI to I sure the hell hope this isn't bullshit AI as Paris. mo (18:11.338) Wow So staying in the AI sector, new McKinsey research shows quote, as generative AI adoption accelerate And we're seeing very basic use of AI in gem thus far.

Adam Posner: So let's talk about that word that's coming through, AI. Chad: Alright. AI, AI, AI. Like my show, you guys talk to a lot of thought leaders. How do you decipher what the hell AI is? So they've got to get companies in who specialize in the tech stack and AI, right? Ultimately, AI means nothing. It's, what is the solution? Chad: Yep. Outcome.

Can conversation AI be more than a point solution? Sovren, was into parsing and AI matching before it was cool. Sovren, AI so human you'd like to take it to dinner. Only Sovren's AI matching engine goes beyond the buzzwords. Madeline (1m 56s): This is conversational AI.

That's followed by a breakdown of recent tech news, including London-born startup Artisan and it's AI So, they're also gonna have Noah, the AI designer, and Liam, the AI marketer that are gonna be coming of AI, I guess we shouldn't be surprised. Not everyone is open AI. No one's revaluing at $87 billion or whatever it is. Chad: So, is AI the answer? That's the question, we need less people... Joel: It might be!