# Josh Bersin Unleashed Josh is a global industry analyst and advisor covering HR, leadership, HR technology, and all areas of management. He is well known as the leading HR and HR tech analyst with more than two million followers. This is Josh, unleashed. Page: Feed: --- ## [How Do We Qualify The “Intelligence” of AI? Let’s Examine 4 Dimensions we use in Daily Life.](https://joshbersin.substack.com/p/how-do-we-qualify-the-intelligence) _2026-08-18 · Josh Bersin_ The name "artificial intelligence" is expansive, yet AI of today is spiky and uneven. Let’s evaluate AI across four dimensions. ## [The Messy World of AI-Powered Recruiting Where Nobody Is Happy](https://joshbersin.substack.com/p/the-messy-world-of-ai-powered-recruiting-97a) _2026-08-17 · Josh Bersin_ AI-powered recruiting has so much potential, yet job seekers, recruiters, and executives remain frustrated. This massive $100+ billion market is filled with AI systems that work very well, yet as you’ll hear, this market is still immature. Not only are jo [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/211566484/57df7434d7ee9b77164c78541ba62664.mp3) ## [Workday, Zuckerberg, Galileo, and Frontline Work](https://joshbersin.substack.com/p/workday-zuckerberg-galileo-and-frontline-2dd) _2026-08-14 · Josh Bersin_ Today I discuss Workday and the potential Silver Lake buyout, Meta’s personal AI strategy and it’s potential for business, update on Galileo, and our new research on frontline work. Most of today’s podcast is “analyst perspectives” but lots of direction i [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/211182306/723b9a381a3c220dac4bcce868fd6b5d.mp3) ## [Despite Massive AI Spending, HR Jobs Are Booming. What's Up?](https://joshbersin.substack.com/p/despite-massive-ai-spending-hr-jobs-8d9) _2026-08-13 · Josh Bersin_ The job market is changing in unpredictable ways. Human Resources, a profession often considered optional and filled with bureaucracy, has been a target for AI disruption. Yet when you look at the numbers, HR job postings are growing faster than overall U [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/211040127/a51c6e6248011fecf5d9c26e3e5dae27.mp3) ## [Despite Massive AI Investment, Jobs In HR Are Booming](https://joshbersin.substack.com/p/despite-massive-ai-investment-jobs) _2026-08-12 · Josh Bersin_ The CEO of SHRM recently stated that "the field of HR faces extinction." Actually the opposite is true: HR is growing in importance. ## [Why Vertical and Domain Specific AI is the Biggest Business Opportunity of Them All.](https://joshbersin.substack.com/p/why-vertical-and-domain-specific-2b0) _2026-08-09 · Josh Bersin_ As AI experts leave Google and new startups emerge, engineers are consumed with Superintelligence: building models that can reason, learn, and capture “all the world’s knowledge.” While model evolution is important, I believe we’re going in a different di [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/210495305/817f3695db87a04a827619fbf778e541.mp3) ## [CFOs and CIOs Starting to Treat Enterprise AI Like Traditional Tech: Is It Cost-Effective, Does It Work, and What Are The Risks?](https://joshbersin.substack.com/p/cfos-and-cios-starting-to-treat-enterprise) _2026-08-06 · Josh Bersin_ The fascination with AI's impact on jobs, layoffs, or magic is giving way to a pragmatic, traditional view on AI's cost, benefits, and risks. ## [Living A High Agency Life: How Should Companies Respond?](https://joshbersin.substack.com/p/living-a-high-agency-life-how-should-d60) _2026-08-05 · Josh Bersin_ The word of the decade is “Agency” – giving each of us the power, tools, and opportunity to do what we want with our life, jobs, and careers. This new buzzword, now one of the top memes in politics, has been coming for many years. In this podcast I discus [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/209953907/67eed32f4085888f7467f8523824935a.mp3) ## [Elon Musk Believes AI Will Exceed Human Intelligence In Five Years. Here's Why I Disagree.](https://joshbersin.substack.com/p/elon-musk-believes-ai-will-exceed-74f) _2026-08-01 · Josh Bersin_ The word “intelligence” is a loaded word. Here’s what Elon Musk said to the Economist last week: “I think AI may exceed the sum of human intelligence in around five years. There really won’t be anything that AI can’t do better than humans, apart from bein [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/209428458/9344c296b9d64751a72801634b36297d.mp3) ## [Transcript-Driven Stock Discovery (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/cVgmTHpVVX6v) _2026-08-01 · **Sponsored**_ Ranked, evidence-backed watchlists from indexed executive transcripts for 1–2 quarter horizons ## [Open Source Models: An Exciting New Business Model For Enterprise AI](https://joshbersin.substack.com/p/open-source-models-an-exciting-new-463) _2026-07-30 · Josh Bersin_ New names: Kimi K3, Llama, Nemotron, Mistral, Cohere, Deepseek, Phi-4 – these are just a few of the fast-growing open source models from major AI providers. These systems threaten the business models and financial plans of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and X [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/209261570/669060d34db90f528a5278b140a3ee55.mp3)