The AI Jobs Story Just Flipped
YPO Technology Network AI Brief by Stephen Forte
Episode notes
Three second-order effects of the AI buildout are landing on business leaders at the same time — on your people, on what gets built next, and on who's allowed to use any of it.
In this episode, Stephen Forte covers:
- The AI-jobs story flips — Gallup finds tech workers who rarely use AI are about 3x more likely to be laid off (~18% vs 6%), while Forrester says 55% of companies that restructured around AI now regret it and Gartner expects half of AI-driven cutters to rehire by 2027. Plus Stephen's own playbook: why one-on-one, workflow-specific training beats lunch-and-learns every time.
- Capital rotates to world models — General Intuition (~$300M at ~$2B, having turned down a ~$500M OpenAI offer) and Odyssey ($310M at $1.45B, optimizing for Amazon's Trainium chips) both raise nine-figure ...