Workers challenge ‘hidden’ AI hiring tools in class action with major regulatory stakes.

Workers are getting fed up with AI-based hiring practices. A new class action lawsuit filed in California alleges that human candidates are being unfairly profiled by “hidden” AI hiring technologies that “lurk in the background” to collect “sensitive and often inaccurate” information about “unsuspecting” job applicants. The suit specifically targets Eightfold AI, claiming that tools…

Anthropic’s Claude AI gets a new constitution embedding safety and ethics

Anthropic has completely overhauled the “Claude constitution”, a document that sets out the ethical parameters governing its AI model’s reasoning and behavior. Launched at the World Economic Forum’s Davos Summit, the new constitution’s principles are that Claude should be “broadly safe” (not undermining human oversight), “Broadly ethical” (honest, avoiding inappropriate, dangerous, or harmful actions), “genuinely…

AI laggards can still come out ahead

AI is virtually everywhere now. We’re seeing it in every commercial, after every Google search and even possibly in Will Smith’s music videos. It doesn’t need any free press. But it keeps getting more. A detailed McKinsey industry study on AI usage demonstrated that companies in the AI Leader category are seeing six times revenue…

Is AI eradicating the junior developer?

Across industries and job functions, AI is reshaping how we approach and complete tasks of all types. Whether it be on the individual or organizational level, AI capabilities introduce a new layer to the concept of working smarter, not harder. Generative AI, in particular, has opened up a new world of possibilities within software development,…

How learning enterprises compete

In “Intelligent transformation: Building the enterprise that learnsv,” I laid out the uncomfortable truth behind the productivity paradox: AI undeniably accelerates work and reduces friction. Yet, those improvements rarely translate into meaningful gains on a company’s P&L. Productivity alone does not create value. It only creates leverage when it changes the speed of the business,…