LinkedIn Users Edit Profiles to Add AI and Remove DEI
Executives point to revisions in past LinkedIn job entries that insert AI while dropping DEI references.
Nicholas Thompson noted that professionals are revising earlier LinkedIn job descriptions to add AI while removing DEI and remote work mentions. Paul Graham shared a chart showing a rise in retrospective edits that insert AI-related terms after 2024. Both point to an NBER paper titled Time Travel on Professional Profiles as the underlying source. The tweets present the pattern as observed behavior on the platform without additional confirmation from the paper itself.
People are going into their previous job descriptions on Linkedin and adding "A.I." while removing "D.E.I." and "remote work."
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3 postsLinkedIn users have been editing their work histories to add "AI" and remove "DEI".
Someone should start a lab called DEI AI
LinkedIn users have been editing their work histories to add "AI" and remove "DEI".
brutal for everyone involved
LinkedIn users have been editing their work histories to add "AI" and remove "DEI".