{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Leadership Sovereignty Podcast: Career Growth and Promotion","title":"Please Save Our Jobs: How to Stay Relevant When AI Layoffs Reach Your Company","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/e5fdecbb\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2103,"description":"Is your job next, and what are you supposed to do about it?\nAI is now the most cited reason for layoffs in the United States, and the people being cut rarely get a vote. Most of the advice on offer is either panic or platitude. This episode is neither.\nSai Prakash, CTO and co-founder of MindStaq, returns to The Leadership Sovereignty Podcast with host Ralph E. Owens II and co-host Terry Baylor, and this episode closes our series of conversations with Sai Prakash. He has studied artificial intelligence since 1996 and he builds it for a living, which makes his view of the current layoff wave worth hearing. He calls preemptive layoffs at profitable companies \"incredibly irresponsible and unethical,\" and he points to the companies now \"hiring people back after laying them off.\"\nHis central argument is that the mistake is a leadership mistake, not a technology outcome: \"one of the worst things you can do is treat AI like it's a magic box and stop listening to the humans who are sitting in front of you.\"\nThen he tells the story that proves it. In 1980s Bahrain, where his father was the chief engineer of the Ministry of Electricity and Water, computers arrived at work and \"people were just being shipped out if they weren't able to use computers.\" Neighbors came to the house. \"There were so many people basically saying, Please save our jobs, and my father just said, I can't ignore this.\" The family home became a ten-computer lab running classes in batches of twelve, for years, with an eleven-year-old Sai as the teaching assistant.\nHe closes on the choice that is still yours: \"it's not about knowledge. it's about deciding what to use that knowledge for.\"\n******************************\n🎯 WHAT YOU'LL LEARN IN THIS EPISODE\nWhy handing every employee an AI license leaves a company \"just doing things faster\" and nothing more\nWhat Sai means by the harness, and why the harness for a company is where the real work sits\nWhy Sai calls preemptive layoffs at profitable companies...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/HrtAHE3tIaxuHOQdgCfKGWhEfwHl0O5gNGoh7oEDgkY/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8zNjVi/MDVlODYwMjRlZTZi/ZTk3MzZmNzA1ZmU1/NmEwZC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}