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Can AI do your job? Shopify forces employees to prove humans are needed

Author
Paul Stenhouse,
Publish Date
Sat, 12 Apr 2025, 11:18am
Photo / NZ Herald
Photo / NZ Herald

Can AI do your job? Shopify forces employees to prove humans are needed

Author
Paul Stenhouse,
Publish Date
Sat, 12 Apr 2025, 11:18am

Shopify is forcing employees to justify why AI can't do the job they want to hire  

It's starting. An AI assistant is about to become your coworker. Before a new job posting can go live, it needs to be proven why AI can't do the job.  

Not only that, Shopify's CEO is forcing all employees to use AI in their daily work – even baking it into performance reviews. He wants them to be more efficient and believes AI is going to do that, saying in a company-wide letter: “Frankly, I don’t think it’s feasible to opt out of learning the skill of applying AI in your craft; you are welcome to try, but I want to be honest I cannot see this working out today, and definitely not tomorrow.”   

Shopify was the same company who deleted every recurring meeting with three or more people.  

  

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  • High quality video calls, with the ability to pinch in to zoom on mobile. 

 

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