Babith Bhoopalan

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169 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 13 Jul

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AI Haven't A Clue · Former Microsoft AI Leader : AI Has Broken the Career Ladder · 13 Jul 2026 podcast

I was really dumbfounded by that question, even after spending more than two decades in technology companies.

I didn't really have a solid answer at that time.

But that is what I did in terms of how I reflect on these situations is to go back to finding answers or finding data that will at least direct the answers.

So I studied 17 different sources.

from the McKinsey's of the world, World Economy Forum's labor data, Stanford's human intelligence, even Anthropic's own data and insights about the labor market and how it's going to evolve with AI.

And I put the insights into AI career resistance scoring framework, basically to help

My daughter understands, first of all, that it's not the carriers that are going.

There are certain portions and aspects of the carrier that are automatable and will get automated by AI, which is what I call the bottom rung of the ladder.

That scoring framework was my mechanism to help her jumpstart and jump a few steps in that ladder to really position her career choices better.

So one of the stark changes that I've noticed in the past is there was a defined gestation period for a technology to really seep into the society, right, and really find a stranglehold in our daily lives, in the work that we do.

If you look at internet, if you look at mobile phones, it almost took us a decade, if not more, to really see the full value of those technologies and really sort of make that a muscle memory into our lives.

We don't have that luxury with AI anymore.

The version that we were using yesterday is already a stale version of what we are using today.

The technology is moving that fast.

So really, I think it's the forced function of us having to adapt really quickly, which is the stark difference that I see from previous technologies.

I think it's a mixed feeling.

Even after going through that journey with my daughter in terms of looking at, you know, informing her decisions purely based on data, there is still a lot of anxiety.

And I think it has got to do a lot with the fear-mongering that is going on.

I think there is a lot of information across the young generation today which talks about jobs going away, you know, not being able to really utilize the subjects that they are studying.

wastage of money going to college, you know, some of the traditional paths that really were insurance policies for your career, all of those getting eroded away.

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