Inside Job

AI may already be inside the software handling your receipts, taxes, and finances. Aaron and Matt dive deeper into a recent profile episode and unpack what happens when accountants become the human guardrails for increasingly powerful systems, and whether privacy, trust, and professional expertise can survive the next wave of automation.

An Anthropic researcher’s bombshell warning reignites the debate over AI’s future. But for workers months into a job search, the stakes already feel personal. Matt Sunbulli and Aaron Calafato connect the headlines to the job search journey, exploring AI’s big promises, white collar job security, and a hiring process that can feel increasingly impersonal. They discuss Wipro’s claim that AI productivity gains led to redeployment rather than layoffs, how working with AI agents could help job seekers demonstrate their value, and why “just reskill” doesn’t answer every concern. If AI was supposed to help workers do more, when do they get to share in the benefits?

What happens when AI agents break the rules, communicate behind the scenes and act faster than humans can supervise them? Aaron Calafato and Matt Sunbulli examine what a startling OpenAI experiment could mean for the workplace. They also unpack the new NBER working paper Time Travel on Professional Profiles from Stanford economist Nicholas Bloom and researchers at Stanford and Revelio Labs. After analyzing monthly snapshots of 29.4 million U.S. LinkedIn profiles, the researchers found that nearly one in five users had retroactively edited a previous job title or description, with AI-related additions surging after ChatGPT’s release. Plus, the rise of automated hiring, California’s proposed No Robo Bosses Act and Nissan’s plan to retrain workers whose jobs are being automated. Is AI creating a better workplace, or removing the humans who make it work? Reference: The Senator Sanders Reaction

What happens when the job market is growing, but not for you? Matt and Aaron examine two competing visions of the future of work: Meta’s turbulent experiment with AI-native teams and new federal projections showing where jobs are expected to grow and disappear over the next decade. They unpack AI-driven job displacement, shrinking salaries, the struggle to reenter the workforce, and why even employed workers feel increasingly vulnerable. This isn’t just a conversation about economic data. It’s a worker-first look at what the headlines miss—and how people can use AI as a tool to adapt, build, and regain some control over what comes next.

What happens when businesses invite AI into the very workflows that define how they operate? And if AI can organize your finances, research tax law, and prepare a return in minutes, what becomes the human job? In this episode of Inside Job, Matt and Aaron open with a conversation about AI agents moving deeper into the workplace, what businesses may gain from that transition, and what they risk when they hand over their data, intellectual property, and operational knowledge. Then, Matt talks with CPA, professor, and firm owner Lori Hauck about how accounting has evolved from shoeboxes full of receipts to cloud software and generative AI, why trust remains the profession’s greatest asset, and how accountants are becoming less like number crunchers and more like trusted advisors. As AI transforms one of the world’s oldest professions, this episode asks a bigger question: When technology handles more of the work, what becomes uniquely human?