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Is This Working?!

Is This Working?!

Connor Diemand-Yauman
Released: 2026-01-27
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4 Episodes
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4 Episodes
Audio
Listen on Apple Podcasts
Released: 2026-01-27
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AI Won't Erase Jobs. Here’s Why — Cognizant CEO Ravi Kumar

AI Won't Erase Jobs. Here’s Why — Cognizant CEO Ravi Kumar

Ravi Kumar is one of the clearest voices on why AI will create more jobs than it replaces—which is surprising, because he's the CEO of a $35 billion company where machines already write a quarter of the code. He's not guessing. At Cognizant, the bott
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Ravi Kumar is one of the clearest voices on why AI will create more jobs than it replaces—which is surprising, because he's the CEO of a $35 billion company where machines already write a quarter of the code.
He's not guessing. At Cognizant, the bottom 50% of his workers gained 37% productivity from AI. The top 50%? Only 17%. AI isn't replacing the bottom—it's lifting them up faster than anyone else.
In this conversation, Ravi and Connor dig into what most AI conversations miss: why entry-level jobs might actually expand, not disappear. Why "problem finders" will matter more than problem solvers. And why the old model of education → work → retire is already broken and in desperate need of disruption.
For anyone anxious about AI and the future of work, this is the conversation you didn't know you needed: a leader who sees what's coming and can actually explain where the opportunities are.
Chapters
00:00:00 You're not competing with AI, you're competing with people using AI
00:01:27 From worst student to nuclear physicist to CEO
00:03:03 Leading through influence, not control
00:05:47 Betting on unconventional talent and upward mobility
00:08:25 Rethinking education — Learning, working, and earning together
00:11:18 AI as equalizer — The bottom gains more than the top
00:14:05 Jobs won't disappear — They'll multiply
00:15:58 The training crisis and velocity of change
00:18:27 Code generation and the agentic future
00:23:00 Amplify humans, don't replace them — A counter to Turing
00:31:21 Corporate responsibility and the Synapse Initiative
00:34:16 What keeps him up at night — Regulation, inequality, and the race
00:38:55 Corporations as platforms for societal change
00:40:41 Advice for the next generation — Master interdisciplinary thinking
Episode ID: 1000746920462
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Release Date: 27/01/2026, 21:08:00

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What if the most interesting thing about work isn’t what we do—but what it does to us?
Is This Working?! dives into meaningful work and the messy humans who do it. As AI reshapes industries and upends old definitions of success, social entrepreneur and Stanford GSB lecturer Connor Diemand-Yauman talks with extraordinary people about both sides of the story: the outer work (what they built, how they pivoted, the tactics that actually worked) and the inner work(the therapy, the doubt, the failure) it took to get there.
Because when the world is changing this fast, maybe these stories are the only way to know if any of this is actually working.

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