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Normally when a business signs up a new client, it’s a cause for celebration on both sides. That hasn’t always been the case for John Jersin and his artificial intelligence startup Connectifier.

On multiple occasions right after finally convincing hiring managers to use his high-tech recruiting tool, Jersin has received the same bewildering question from new customers: Will this end up eliminating my job, or, you know, destroying my entire industry?

Such is the nature of working in the artificial intelligence field today. “They understand that this technology is powerful enough that they need to take advantage of it, but they are a little bit concerned about the impact it may have on their industry in the long-term,” says Jersin, CEO of Connectifier and a former Google product manager. Read more…

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