Google co-founder Sergey Brin shares how AI helped him discover a hidden talent within the company, identifying an employee for promotion he hadn't noticed before.
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00:01What if your boss uses AI to decide your eligibility for an appraisal?
00:05Google co-founder Sergey Brin shared an anecdote about how AI helped him identify a deserving employee for promotion.
00:11Brin had AI analyze group chats and recommend someone for a promotion,
00:15and it flagged a quiet but hardworking engineer whom Brin hadn't noticed before.
00:19After verifying the recommendation with the team manager,
00:22Brin found that the engineer had indeed been doing excellent work.
00:25Brin has been experimenting with integrating AI into managerial tasks, stating that management is actually one of the easiest things for AI to handle.
00:32Other tech leaders like Nvidia's Jensen Wang and Duolingo's CTO Severin Hacker are also embracing AI as a productivity tool.
00:40However, some experts such as LinkedIn COO Dan Shapiro believe that certain aspects of leadership should remain human.