What the jobs report isn't telling you about AI & the workforce, with Upwork’s Hayden Brown

0:00The future of work is arriving and it's arriving on our shores right now, right here, whether we want it to or not.

0:07The urgency and the need for all of us to become fluent in using AI for our jobs, I mean, that is something none of us can escape.

0:15You can't learn to ride a bike in a seminar.

0:18And I think the same is true for AI.

0:20Until you're using these tools day in and day out, really integrating and pushing what's the boundaries of what they can do, that's when I think people become extremely capable.

0:29Will humans win or machines win?

0:33I think that is distracting us from, in some cases, putting our collective societal energy towards building a future where everyone wins.

0:44That's Hayden Brown, CEO of Upwork, the global tech platform for freelance workers.

0:49As AI radically resets expectations across the workforce, Upwork has a critical vantage point on how the job market is actually evolving.

0:59I wanted to talk to Hayden about the on-the-ground reality beyond government job numbers and the dreamy predictions of AI cheerleaders.