HeyJaredAI Replaced Me
Is AI coming for your job, or creating your next opportunity? "AI Replaced Me" with Koby Ofek delivers the real story. Each week, we unravel AI's impact on the workforce with sharp insights, compelling narratives, and a touch of irreverence.
- Indexed episodes, last 90 days
- 3
- Latest publication
- Aug 1, 2026
- Audience
- Checking…
- Earliest in this view
- Jul 17, 2026
Latest episodes
Ep. 37 — The Just-So Layoff (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Intuit's badge readers went dark for three thousand people this week, and the memo blamed "AI." We ask how many of 2026's layoff headlines are real causation and how many are Just So Stories - tidy explanations built to end the questions, not answer them. Along the way: Sam Altman's own admission that companies are "AI washing" their cuts, a European rule on algorithmic firing decisions that got quietly postponed one day before it was due to bind, and a fresh PwC report showing where the real sh
Ep. 36 - The Clock Movers (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Two Nobel-winning economists spent years telling everyone to stop panicking about "AI" and jobs. This week they signed a joint statement, alongside 200+ economists and 16 Nobel laureates, warning it could reshape the economy faster than the Industrial Revolution. We dig into what actually changed their minds: Verizon's 16,600 job cuts, a hiring freeze two-thirds of CEOs can't yet justify with data, a quiet insurance-sector layoff filing, and a generation of young software developers whose employ
Ep. 35 — The Long Way Back (opens the original)
Read excerpt
After a way too long break, we're back with the story that made silence impossible: companies that laid off workers for AI are quietly, expensively rehiring them, and a new survey of 2,000 hiring managers puts a real number on it. We trace the "AI boomerang" back thirty years to a nearly identical management fad, sit inside a discrimination lawsuit alleging an algorithm targeted employees on medical and parental leave, and ask what it means that the last 40% of almost every job turns out to be t
Publishing over time
Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.
Recurring subjects
Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.
Not enough subject data for this period yet.
Audience
No verified audience measurement yet.
About this data
Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.
Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.