Ep 144 AI: Your Company Decided Your Value Before AI Existed

About this episode

Stephen Gates discusses the impact of AI on job security and the underlying decisions companies have made regarding employee value.

AI didn't build the case to replace you. It just gave companies the tool to finally act on a decision they'd already made. In this episode, Stephen Gates gets brutally honest about what's actually happening underneath the wave of creative layoffs — and why asking "is AI going to take my job?" is already the wrong question. Using a framework he's shared with teams and mentors for over fifteen years, Stephen maps out the four quadrants that determine your real value inside any organization: hum...

People in this episode

Host: Stephen Gates

Topics covered

• AI
• job security
• creative layoffs
• organizational value
• career management

Keywords

• AI
• job replacement
• creative layoffs
• organizational value
• career framework

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