Molly Graham
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Molly Graham is a company and community builder who has spent nearly two decades helping fast-growing companies navigate periods of rapid growth and organisational change. She is known for her “Give Away Your Legos” framework for scaling teams and for hosting TED’s WorkLife podcast.
What Molly Graham has said on podcasts
11 statements
Current evidence does not strongly show that AI is eliminating jobs.
“As of right now, like there is not a lot of data, although you may have more than I do, that says that AI is genuinely taking jobs away.”
Open the episode · The grief, loneliness, and burnout sweeping through the tech industry right now | Molly GrahamListen at 27:03
Many AI-branded layoffs are not actually caused by AI.
“I have a lot of beef to pick with all the AI-branded layoffs out there because they're bullshit. Like they're not about AI.”
Open the episode · The grief, loneliness, and burnout sweeping through the tech industry right now | Molly GrahamListen at 27:10
Many companies label layoffs as AI-related to obscure overhiring or poor management.
“they're about badly run companies slapping an AI label and getting some share points from that versus saying, whoops, we hired too many people.”
Open the episode · The grief, loneliness, and burnout sweeping through the tech industry right now | Molly GrahamListen at 27:16
Tech jobs may persist while changing substantially because of AI.
“what if we believe that they're not going away, they're just going to reinvent themselves?”
Open the episode · The grief, loneliness, and burnout sweeping through the tech industry right now | Molly GrahamListen at 28:56
Some responsibilities should remain with humans rather than being delegated to AI.
“in AI land, I think we gotta caveat this. Like, I think there are some Legos that shouldn't be given away, that the robots, like, both, like, don't deserve and, like, that we should hold onto.”
Open the episode · The grief, loneliness, and burnout sweeping through the tech industry right now | Molly GrahamListen at 1:00:40
AI should reduce undesirable work and increase uniquely human work.
“my fervent hope for AI is that it lets us do less of the things we shouldn't have been doing in the first place and more of the things that humans are best in the world at”
Open the episode · The grief, loneliness, and burnout sweeping through the tech industry right now | Molly GrahamListen at 1:01:05
Human driving should be replaced because driving is automatable and humans perform it poorly.
“Humans shouldn't be driving. Driving is fundamentally just code and systems, and we're really bad at that.”
Open the episode · The grief, loneliness, and burnout sweeping through the tech industry right now | Molly GrahamListen at 1:01:22
CEOs should retain ownership of strategic judgment rather than outsource it to AI.
“things that require judgment, right? Things that require, like, again, to the CEOs that are asking AI for a strategy and then copying and pasting it and sending it to their company, like, no, like that is fundamentally something that a human brain that you as a CEO of your company need to own.”
Open the episode · The grief, loneliness, and burnout sweeping through the tech industry right now | Molly GrahamListen at 1:01:44
Trust-based relationship work should not be outsourced to AI.
“things that require trust, like that are, you know, fundamental to relationships, like we should not be outsourcing these things to robots”
Open the episode · The grief, loneliness, and burnout sweeping through the tech industry right now | Molly GrahamListen at 1:02:04
Work cannot be safely outsourced when quality standards are undefined.
“if you don't understand what quality is, like, you can't outsource that yet.”
Open the episode · The grief, loneliness, and burnout sweeping through the tech industry right now | Molly GrahamListen at 1:02:24
People should not outsource their distinctive capabilities to AI, though AI can amplify them.
“do not outsource that. Like you can enable it, you can amplify it to use your data, but don't outsource it to these weird robots that, you know, are effectively summer interns.”
Open the episode · The grief, loneliness, and burnout sweeping through the tech industry right now | Molly GrahamListen at 1:05:56
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