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AI Washing
Sam Altman admitted it out loud: companies are blaming AI for layoffs that have nothing to do with AI. He sees the washing. He doesn't see what's being…
Mar 12 • Dr. Venki Padmanabhan
Hide Your Intelligence
Blind Career Advice of the AI Age
Feb 17 • Dr. Venki Padmanabhan
Brain Well Done
AI Doesn’t Fry Your Brain. Your Boss Does.
Apr 14 • Dr. Venki Padmanabhan
The Matrix Hired 640,000 People
When AI “creates” work, ask who it’s actually employing
Apr 10 • Dr. Venki Padmanabhan
Eating the Seed Corn
How AI Is Destroying the Formation It Needs to Replace
Apr 7 • Dr. Venki Padmanabhan
I Wield a Great Instrument
What Happens When You Treat AI the Way You Should Treat Your Workers
Mar 28 • Dr. Venki Padmanabhan
Don’t Add the Third Shift
Before you scale with AI, fix what’s broken with the people you already have.
Apr 28 • Dr. Venki Padmanabhan
The Pope’s Homily Problem Is Your Factory’s Intelligence Problem
Why the Vatican’s oldest instinct about AI is the one manufacturing keeps ignoring
Mar 24 • Dr. Venki Padmanabhan
The Three Faces of AI Washing
What the 92,000-Job Shock Tells Us About Who’s Lying, and How
Mar 19 • Dr. Venki Padmanabhan
The Oldest Algorithm
What AI Dating Gets Wrong About the Most Sophisticated Matching System Ever Built
Mar 18 • Dr. Venki Padmanabhan
The Nobel Laureate Sees the Disease. Here’s the Cure.
Why Daron Acemoglu’s warning about AI and democracy demands a shop-floor answer — and why we already have one.
Mar 7 • Dr. Venki Padmanabhan
The Narrow Aperture
AI freed up six hours. The boss took them. But what if the real question isn’t about time at all?
Mar 17 • Dr. Venki Padmanabhan
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