AI That Works for Workers? Plus Atlassian Buys a Browser & the Orchestration Buzzword

About this episode

The episode explores employee trust in AI, the state of AI training at work, and recent tech news including Atlassian's acquisition.

This week we dig into a new survey on AI and workers from Kyla Scanlon that asks the big question: do employees actually trust their employers to use AI in their favor? Spoiler: real estate agents and Hollywood don’t. Healthcare somehow does. We also unpack the messy state of AI training at work (hint: most people aren’t getting any) and why “upskilling” is the thing employees want most, even if it means learning the tools that could replace them. Then we shift gears into tech drama: Atlassia...

Topics covered

• AI in the workplace
• employee trust
• AI training
• upskilling
• tech acquisitions
• Atlassian

Keywords

• AI
• workers
• trust
• training
• upskilling
• Atlassian
• survey

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Atlassian, Hollywood, Healthcare, real estate agents

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