Future Ready Leadership With Jacob Morgan The Robot Is Already Your Boss. Here Are the Rules It Should Follow
Feb 20, 2026
AI is already deciding hires, promotions, pay, and layoffs with almost no rules. The host proposes five workplace AI laws: transparency about algorithmic decisions, meaningful human authority, truthful attribution of AI's role, accounting for social costs, and ensuring reversibility before permanent cuts. Concrete examples include resume screening, calendar-based flags, and the Klarna rehiring fiasco.
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Tennis Rating Bot Upended Matches
- Jacob describes a tennis-league algorithm that auto-upgraded a player and voided matches.
- The example shows how blind automated rules can damage people without recourse.
Own And Prove AI Claims Publicly
- If you claim AI drove a decision, be prepared to prove and stand behind that claim.
- Treat AI attribution like any other material business assertion.
Private Gains, Public Costs Problem
- AI-driven job cuts privatize gains while socializing costs through public programs.
- Taxpayers and communities often shoulder the downstream costs of corporate workforce changes.