LinkedIn CEO on AI Jobs, Agentic Hiring and the AI Slop Problem

LinkedIn CEO Dan Shapero joins The Economic Times’ Anirban Chowdhury and Dia Rekhi to unpack how AI is transforming hiring, skills and careers. He explains why LinkedIn’s data does not yet show AI driving the current hiring slowdown, even as the skills required for jobs change at extraordinary speed. Shapero also discusses India’s AI jobs boom, the surge in founders, LinkedIn’s $450-million AI hiring business, the prospect of AI agents hiring through other AI agents, and why LinkedIn is cracking down on “AI slop.”