The CEO of Upwork, Hayden Brown: AI is Creating Jobs, Not Killing Them
AI's impact on job creation versus job displacement in the freelance economy
Guest
Hayden Brown
CEO, Upwork
Hayden Brown is chief executive officer of Upwork, the global work marketplace connecting businesses with independent talent. She joined the company after leadership roles spanning strategy, marketing, and operations, and has focused on expanding access to flexible, digitally mediated work.
About this conversation
Is AI quietly creating more work than it’s replacing, and are we measuring the job market the wrong way?
In this episode of AI-Curious, we talk with the CEO of Upwork, Hayden Brown, about what the platform is seeing across the global freelance economy, and why the “AI is killing jobs” narrative can miss what’s happening at the edges of the market.
We also dig into how to adopt AI inside an organization without just “sprinkling fairy dust” on old workflows, and what it takes to make AI rollout a cultural shift, not just a tooling upgrade.