How Can AI Improve the Employee Experience? With Dennis Mortensen & Ben Jackson
How can AI Improve the Employee Experience? In this episode of thinkPod, we are joined by x.ai co-founder & CEO Dennis Mortensen and Ben Jackson, founder of For the Win. We talk to Dennis and Ben about hiring algorithms and the danger of bias, whether HR teams are equipped to make data-driven decisions, Inbox Zero versus Inbox Infinity, and the possibility of cultural change. We also discuss whether engineers can predict human behavior, the ethics of employee nudging, how startups will start operating like a mid-sized European soccer team, and the definition of a sandwich. Dennis Mortensen is the CEO and co-founder of x.ai. Dennis is an expert in leveraging data to solve enterprise use cases and a serial entrepreneur who’s successfully exited several companies on that theme. His long-term vision of killing the inbox led to the formation of x.ai and the creation of Amy + Andrew, artificially intelligent assistants who schedule meetings. More at x.ai Ben Jackson is an expert on tech and the people who create it. Before founding For the Win in 2017, he spent 20 years creating digital products. At the New York Times, he built apps for the "paywall" (current status: 3M+ subscribers). At Vice Media, he led mobile during VICELAND’s debut on cable TV. He was an early advisor on people and operations at Swing Left, and helps prep entry-level engineers for their first job search at Pursuit. Ben’s spoken at SXSW, and written for The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Fast Company. More info at FTW.nyc