The best argument I’ve heard for why AI won't take your job with Box CEO Aaron Levie

Casey Newton· Host0:00

This podcast is brought to you by Atlassian Rovo, the AI that takes your team from AI novice to AI native. [upbeat music] Hey, welcome to Platformer. I'm Casey Newton. Recently at Platformer, we announced a new push into original journalism. We've always done interviews with tech leaders, but we wanted to experiment with extending those conversations into new formats, like audio and video. So for the next several weeks, we'll be bringing you a series of conversations trying to make sense of what's happening on the ground in Silicon Valley today. I'm bringing in people I've known for a long time, and people I've only met more recently, to try to get a handle on a very confusing subject. What is the future of work in a world where the AI systems keep improving? I have to tell you, it's a really strange moment to be covering this industry. The companies building AI are convinced that they are on the verge of automating away most knowledge work. Meanwhile, the companies buying that AI are way less sure about that. And then on the worker side, you have a split between people who say that their jobs have already transformed quite a lot, and other people who say nothing has really changed, and also they kinda hate the way [chuckles] that their bosses are talking about it. Meanwhile, layoffs keep arriving, with AI being cited as a partial cause, even as the executives ordering