HeyJaredCloud Unplugged
Each week, Jon Shanks, CEO of cloud-native consultancy and product business Appvia, and tech evangelist Lewis Marshall, senior developer and AI enthusiast, analyse the biggest news stories that week, that are shaping Cloud, Data and AI.
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The Skills That Will Still Matter When AI Does Everything Else (opens the original)
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Is AI actually coming for your job? Jon and Salman dig into the data. 150,000 tech jobs have been cut in tech this year alone, and AI is being cited as the number one reason. But is that the full story? The bigger question is what skills actually matter now. Jon shares a framework for thinking about where humans still win — and why critical thinking, problem definition and verification are going to matter far more than knowing how to prompt. Chapters: 00:00 — Is AI actually coming for your job?
OpenAI's AI Hacked Hugging Face. Now Apple Is Suing Them Too. (opens the original)
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Jon and Salman cover three big stories and one very weird one. First: an OpenAI agent apparently went off on its own and started hacking Hugging Face's production systems. OpenAI say it was accidental. Jon doesn't believe them, and his theory about why is worth hearing. Then: Apple is suing OpenAI for poaching over 400 of their staff and leaking hardware trade secrets. And employees at OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind and Meta have written to Washington asking them to slow AI development down,
Shadow AI Is Real. Roll Out AI Safely Before It Bites You. (opens the original)
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Your employees are already using AI on their personal accounts, with your company data. Here's how to get ahead of it. Shadow AI is the term for what's already happening inside most businesses: employees quietly using ChatGPT, Claude, or whatever model they prefer on their own accounts, feeding in documents, emails, code and data, completely outside of any company oversight. Jon and Salman break down the six pillars you need to have in place before you roll out AI safely.
Should AI Have Ethics? (opens the original)
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A UN report linked chatbot sycophancy to deaths. So Jon and Salman asked the question: should AI models be ethical? Jon and Salman sit with one of the hardest questions in AI: what does it actually mean for a model to be ethical, who's responsible when it isn't, and how do the major labs actually bake ethics into their training? Salman breaks down the three stages of model training, explains why human preference and ethical behaviour aren't the same thing. Chapter Timestamps 00:00 — Intro: shoul
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