Curated playlist · 04
AI to grow. AI to cut. Who captures the difference?
Capability can expand while paid work contracts. These conversations refuse the easy choice between optimism and panic.
The question beneath the question
When AI returns time or expands output, who gets the benefit—and who absorbs the pressure?
Growth and displacement can occur at the same time, at different levels. The outcome depends on workflow redesign, bargaining power, reinvestment, and which human capabilities the institution protects.
The listening order
Each stop changes the question.
Hayden Brown
The CEO of Upwork, Hayden Brown: AI is Creating Jobs, Not Killing Them
Start with a platform view of new work, orchestration, and changing demand.
Krista Snelling
AI Adoption Case Study Masterclass, w/ WCCB’s Krista Snelling & Matthew March
Test the additive case inside a named institution.
Kelly Monahan
How AI Will Change How You Work, w/ Kelly Monahan
Ask why personal efficiency often fails to become institutional value.
Dan Roth
How AI Will Impact Your Job Search, w/ LinkedIn’s Editor-in-Chief Dan Roth
Follow the skills becoming more valuable as building gets cheaper.
Caroline Ingeborn
Unified Intelligence and the Future of Creative AI, w/ Caroline Ingeborn
Hold creative access beside provenance, authorship, and paid labor.
Kevin Surace
Why Businesses Need to Become AI-First, w/ Kevin Surace
End with the sharper question: who captures the productivity gain?
Carry it forward
Do not celebrate saved time until someone can say where it went.
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