Stepstone's Automation Bias Machine

About this episode

Chad and Joel discuss the AI hype cycle, compliance risks in recruiting tools, and various global topics while celebrating Chad's birthday in Portugal.

Grab your pastel shorts and a cold drink because Chad is broadcasting live from Portugal, celebrating his birthday alongside a local bar owner while Joel prepares for a milestone anniversary trip to Italy. In this high-energy, unfiltered episode of The Chad & Cheese Podcast, the boys take a sledgehammer to the current AI hype cycle, contrasting Workday’s massive earnings and $500 million agentic AI run rate against the harsh reality of Microsoft and Uber scaling back their tech due to exploding compute costs. From Stepstone’s new EU compliance push to Indeed’s automated features, Chad drops a massive hot take on how over-engineered recruiting tools create dangerous compliance risks and automation bias. They tie up the loose ends of the global economy by breaking down everything from the historic Indy 500 finish and a comedic eulogy for Schlitz beer, to the Pope's latest tech warnings and the EU's pivot to renewable energy as a national security weapon. It is the perfect, loose, and brutally honest mix of global geopolitics, HR tech consolidation, and birthday banter that you absolutely cannot miss. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction and Personal Milestones 02:08 - Joel and Chad's…

People in this episode

Hosts: Chad, Joel

Topics covered

• AI hype cycle
• recruiting tools
• global economy
• tech consolidation
• compliance risks
• birthday banter

Keywords

• AI
• recruiting
• compliance
• Stepstone
• Workday
• Indy 500
• Pope
• technology
• global economy

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Stepstone, Workday, Microsoft, Uber, Indeed

Books & works: Schlitz beer

Places: Portugal, Italy, EU

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