The Doom Industry: How Fear About AI Jobs Became a Business Model
May 22, 2026: The AI job apocalypse story has become one of the most-shared narratives of the decade. It is also one of the most misleading. In this episode, I dismantle the doom narrative being sold ...
22 Touko 39min
Two Hours That Changed AI, $1 Billion Enterprise Deployment Wave, and California's Worker Protection Order
May 21, 2026: Today might be the most consequential single day for the future of work in all of 2026. In a two-hour window yesterday afternoon, OpenAI's AI autonomously solved an 80-year-old math prob...
21 Touko 36min
Meta Cuts 8,000 Jobs, Top AI Researcher Leaves OpenAI for Anthropic, and 80% of Americans Are on Their Own With AI
May 20, 2026: Meta began notifying 8,000 employees of their layoffs this morning — while simultaneously redirecting $145 billion into AI infrastructure. Andrej Karpathy, one of the founding members of...
20 Touko 33min
The Companies Doubling Down on Junior Hiring, Why AI Is Eroding Gen Z's Brain, and Gartner's Shocking Jobs Forecast for 2028
May 19, 2026: Everyone has an opinion about AI and jobs. Today we have actual data — three major studies published this week that, taken together, tell a story that's more nuanced, more surprising, an...
19 Touko 19min
Out-learning the Competition by Building a Skills-Based Talent Ecosystem | Susan LaMonica, CHRO of Citizens Financial Group
If your organization isn't obsessed with how fast your people can learn, you're already falling behind in the race to "out-learn" the competition. In this episode, I'm joined by Susan LaMonica, the Ch...
18 Touko 54min
The Manager Purge, the Agent Sprawl Crisis, and America's 1,200 AI Laws With No Rulebook
May 15, 2026: The Guardian documents the tech industry's accelerating purge of middle managers — and history says companies have tried this exact bet before with Jack Welch and the Reengineering movem...
15 Touko 43min
Kevin O'Leary Got It Wrong, Meta's Trust Crisis, and the Talent Problem Nobody Wants to Fix
May 14, 2026: Tucker Carlson and Kevin O'Leary debated AI, energy, and jobs yesterday — and O'Leary had the right argument but made the wrong one. Today we break down what he should have said, includi...
14 Touko 36min
Goldman's Robot Workforce, Amazon's Fake AI Scores, and Princeton's 133-Year Trust Collapse
May 13, 2026: Goldman Sachs President and COO John Waldron went on CNBC and publicly described his entire workforce as a "human assembly line," announcing that digital AI agents will be the firm's rob...
13 Touko 39min
