Reid Hoffman on making AI work for you

Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel

Careers, Business

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Curious, excited, or even concerned about AI’s impact on your career and the future of work? Whether you're eager to embrace AI or cautious about its effects, this episode with Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn co-founder and author of the new book Superagency: What Could Possibly Go Right With Our AI Future, is packed with insights that will help you navigate the AI revolution, no matter your perspective. Jessi and Reid discuss: Practical strategies for using AI to boost career growth Leveraging AI to enhance your job search Supercharging creativity with AI How to use AI to make better decisions Why we should approach AI with curiosity rather than fear This episode was filmed live in-studio. Check out the full video version on LinkedIn Premium. Continue the conversation with us at Hello Monday Office Hours! Join us here, on the LinkedIn News page, this Wednesday at 3 PM EST. Want to learn more about using AI at work and in life? Check out Jessi’s conversation with Ethan Mollick on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts.

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0:00.0	LinkedIn News
0:02.0	In New York last year, some lawyer submitted a brief from ChatGBT to a judge that had ChatGBT
0:14.0	GPT write the whole thing and didn't read it.
0:16.0	And when the judge was reading through it, well, these citations don't exist.
0:19.0	Hopefully everyone remembers that was a huge, dofist move and don't do that.
0:26.3	From the news team at LinkedIn, I'm Jesse Hempel and this is Hello Monday.
0:31.1	It's our show about work on our own terms.
0:35.8	Today we're talking about artificial intelligence. And just before your eyes glaze over here,
0:40.7	before you flip into doomer mode and start worrying about how it's going to take your job
0:44.4	or destroy the world, I invite you to consider being an optimist. To just consider,
0:51.7	what if things go really radically right?
0:55.3	What if this AI can get us out of a lot of the biggest problems we find ourselves in?
1:00.0	And it's no more complicated than you learning to use it right now.
1:05.1	Our guest today is Reid Hoffman.
1:07.7	He is the founder of LinkedIn.
1:09.8	And here's the special part. He's a friend.
1:12.8	I got to know Reed 25 years ago when I was first starting to write about tech. And at every
1:19.3	step of the way, he has helped me to conceive of the ways that tech can help humans to get to a better
1:25.2	future. You know, Reed has this great podcast.
1:28.5	It's called Masters of Scale.
1:30.1	It's about business and technology leaders.
1:32.4	He talks to them about how they built really big and meaningful things.
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