Future of Work
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‘It’s just his AI and my AI going back and forth’: The workplace phenomenon that’s undermining human relationships
Stop if you’ve heard this one before: An employee received a message from her boss and didn’t quite understand its meaning. Suspecting it was written by AI, the employee asked her AI tool to interpret the message. The AI responded and then asked if she wanted a draft response back to her boss. The employee…
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AWS CEO says replacing young employees with AI is ‘one of the dumbest ideas’—and bad for business: ‘At some point the whole thing explodes on itself’
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has warned of AI displacing entry-level workers, and Ford CEO Jim Farley said the tech will wipe out half of white-collar jobs, but Amazon Web Services (AWS) CEO Matt Garman has a wildly different take on young workers’ fate in the age of AI. Last year, Garman said replacing junior software…
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Ken Griffin celebrates America’s 250th birthday with $26 million gift for new Roosevelt Library built into the Badlands
On July 4, 2026, as the United States marks its 250th birthday, a library will open in the North Dakota Badlands that looks less like a civic institution than a manifesto built in stone and steel. Designed by the international architecture firm Snøhetta, the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in Medora will be the nation’s only…
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Gen Z graduates are blaming AI for their unemployment woes when they should be looking somewhere else
While recent graduates kicked off their summer of potential unemployment by booing commencement speakers extolling the benefits of AI, they may have to look elsewhere to blame for those low hire rates. One top economist argued the generation has reasons beyond just the technology to blame for the weak job market they are inheriting, and…
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Drowning in AI: Companies are launching hundreds of projects, and that’s a problem
Managers and employees alike have gotten the message: AI is part of their job and it’s time to embrace it. That’s the good news. The bad news is that, even as AI adoption is supposed to create efficiency, it can also do the opposite as dozens of teams and individuals stand up AI initiatives that…
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How to run a company when the AI agents vastly outnumber the humans
Having a “human in the loop” is the typical recommendation for organizations using artificial intelligence for jobs in which there’s no margin for error. But what happens when it’s just not possible to keep a human in the loop? As the use of AI ramps up within organizations and as businesses delegate more tasks to…
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LinkedIn research says half of C-suite leaders are flying blind on AI—and its CBO says they can’t fix it the way they’re trying
About halfway through a conversation with Fortune last week, LinkedIn chief business officer Mark Lobosco was asked a blunt question: How much of the enterprise AI adoption story is about executives who resist understanding because their jobs depend on them not understanding it? After all, they spent the vast majority of their careers in a…
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Entry-level work didn’t disappear, PwC finds with ‘seniorization.’ It just morphed into something young workers can’t get
We’ve all heard the debate about AI and jobs: An apocalypse is coming, there are only 18 months left to save white-collar work, no job will be unchanged. Former White House AI czar David Sacks, shortly before he resigned in a dispute over policy, argued doomsday predictions from figures such as Dario Amodei and Sam…
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Why companies are treating AI as a strategic partner rather than a passive technology, and how to avoid an ‘AI hangover’
In corporate America, AI has moved far past the hype cycle into practical implementation. Autonomous agents are handling complex, real-world tasks on behalf of companies that go beyond simple data insights. But building operational AI at scale requires more than just raw algorithmic power. At Fortune Brainstorm Tech this week, executives from third-party logistics giant…
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Despite his new trillionaire status, Elon Musk says money ‘will stop being relevant’ in the future because of AI
SpaceX’s IPO has made Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire, but the CEO spent the leadup to the moment espousing his belief that money won’t matter one day. In a recent conversation with Peter Diamandis, an entrepreneur and executive chairman of the XPrize Foundation, Musk fleshed-out his moonshot visions for the future, which have previously…