By Forbes Membership Forbes Staff
Dive Into How AI Might Help & Harm Across Industries
As many as 41% of employers plan to cut their workforces due to AI, according to the World Economic Forum’s 2025 Future of Jobs Report. And recent layoffs—in tech, media, retail and other industries—support that finding. Join us July 9th at 1pm EST for an engaging panel with live Q&A discussing how companies are looking to AI to make their offices more efficient, why employees across industries are grappling with avoiding losing their jobs to AI and how to use these new tools to make become indispensable at work.
We’ll discuss:
The job functions that companies are starting to outsource to AI and those with the lowest risk of being replaced by AI
How AI is changing industries and job roles, and how companies and employees are using AI to their advantage
New legal, ethical and other AI risks that employers and workers need to know so they can safely experiment with AI
How you can successfully incorporate AI into your job and what you can do to protect yourself from AI-related layoff
Melissa Delaney
Melissa Delaney is an associate editor at Forbes, working with contributors covering technology, healthcare and science. Delaney, an award-winning journalist living in Charleston, South Carolina, is also an adjunct professor of journalism at the College of Charleston and a mentor with Report for America. Before starting at Forbes in May 2023, she was as a technology freelance writer, editor in chief of Austin Monthly, Austin Monthly Home and San Antonio Magazine, editor/feature writer at Computerworld, reporter at the MetroWest Daily News in Massachusetts and editor of the Brookline Tab. She earned her master’s in journalism from Northeastern University.
Maria Gracia Santillana
Maria Gracia Santillana is a NYC-based reporter on the careers team covering workplace and job market trends and the author of Forbes’ Careers newsletter. She’s written about the rights of protesting employees and the rise of AI career coaches. Santillana joined Forbes in June 2022 in the crypto beat, where she covered crypto markets, bankruptcies, legislative campaigns and consumer applications (NFTs). She also wrote Forbes’ Bad Bunny cover, the first digital cover to be published in Spanish.
John Sviokla
John Sviokla is an Harvard Business School Executive Fellow, co-founder of GAI Insights, speaker, writer, teacher, grandfather, curious about all things and advisor to senior executives and investors.
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