Nikesh Arora

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Hard Fork · A.I. Safety Is So Back + Mythos Mayhem with Nikesh Arora + Hot Mess Express · 15 May 2026 podcast

I do understand there are people out there, I'll call it reshaping their technical organizations by creating capacities.

Everybody who's out there saying, I'm reducing my headcount by 7% or 15% or 20%, which you're beginning to see recently, I think they're just creating capacity.

They're saying that capacity allows me to hire more people.

And make room for people that I need who have the newer skill set.

Look, I think that the interesting part is, I was saying this earlier, I was speaking somewhere else, and the part we don't realize is that we're dealing with a tsunami of a desire to transform.

I think we're in a decade-long transformation of business ahead of us.

Imagine, like, you have a new technology.

My CFO would never come and say, I want to use AI to transform my team.

He wants to transform his team and see if he can do it much more efficiently, but he wants AI.

My head of HR wants AI because she wants to create an AI interviewer, an AI assessor, instead of having humans do it.

So every function wants more AI to deploy.

Now, the question is, where's the money going to come from?

It's probably going to come from efficiency in those teams, those functions.

So that's what's going to pay for the tokens.

I think AI is most likely going to be better at assessing my domain skills than a human being.

Really?

Yes.

If you're trying to hire a good coder, if you're trying to hire somebody who knows agentic AI really well, I mean, sitting and talking to them is not going to get me a better answer.

If they can sit and code and deploy OpenClaw in front of me, it's like, I literally have done that interview.

It's like, I said, well, I'm really conversant with AI.

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