AI Could Help Workers Climb The Corporate Ladder Faster

Consulting giants and law firms are looking to use AI to eliminate the large swaths of repetitive and time-consuming tasks required of junior staffers, which would speed up the time it would take for them to reach the prestigious partner level.

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At KPMG, for instance, freshly-minted graduates are now doing tax work that was previously reserved for staff with at least three years of experience. Over at PwC, junior staffers are spending more time pitching clients rather than the hours they used to spend prepping meeting documents. And at Macfarlanes, junior lawyers are interpreting complex contracts that their more — experienced peers used to have to handle.

If the early experimentation pans out, it would mark a seismic shift for professional services firms.

Sam Altman's return to OpenAI raises a new question for the startup: If the entire company is willing to follow its CEO out the door, can anyone ever really rein him in, should they need to?

The job of keeping Altman in check now falls to an overhauled board. Currently, that body consists of three people: Quora CEO Adam D'Angelo (the lone remaining member of the prior board that voted to oust Altman), former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor and economist Larry Summers.

It also remains unclear if Altman himself could eventually regain the board seat he lost in his ouster. Altman told Bloomberg that's "not a top priority" for him at the moment. But his employees' support may prove more powerful than all the board seats combined.

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