Slowpoke Monday is to continue with an Uber news round-up. First, the conversations on artificial intelligence, or AI, taking over human jobs, are still, well, on-going, surprise, surprise. Second, a friendly match brewing within the teams in Uber. Here’s the scoop.
The statement from the CFO on AI
The 41-year-old Uber CFO, Balaji Krishnamurthy, still believes that AI can outsmart and take away human jobs. This may be felt before, but kinda faded away today.
Kurt Leighton, a government employee in his late 20s, would not use AI tools like ChatGPT for work, and would prefer things to be humanized as possible. This engineer has connected with his superiors who then assured them that AI can be used on the job, that he shouldn’t be afraid to utilize it, and that they won’t lose their jobs, or not get paid for their work. The same thing goes with newsrooms nowadays.
"What we have done is we have tempered the pace of hiring, and we – and this is broadly across the company, but specifically from an engineering standpoint – the hiring ramp we have for the remainder of the year is significantly lower than what we thought it would be when we came into this year” is the statement from Krishnamurthy on AI.
In 2026, Uber cut its hiring pace due to investments supporting AI, cutting down the need for more human workers in the fields of engineering, and the like. The result is that the company is “hiring fewer people, not faster employee output.”
The CFO of Uber revealed that more investments in AI will manifest in the work of the human resources department, saying that this technology still displaces workers despite the stimulus done to find an equal ground. What do you think?
Overtakings
Despite those statements from the CFO, Uber is determined to keep using their AI investments. In fact, based upon recent data, the finance team of Uber is showing resilience and relentlessness, overtaking each other with the engineering department in the use of AI. Though there are investment doubts to set the net and expectations.
Tiho Nedkov, the director of finance at Uber, told Ridesharing Forum, saying, “Finance actually led this [within] Uber for a couple years… at least until agentic coding came along.”
Over 90 percent of professionals in Uber’s finance department are routintely using AI tools, highlighting the rapid integration of this tool into the team and the daily workflows.
But, there’s a bit bias here, since Nedkov is a finance director, but look at that admission, right? The winner: the engineering team, and it’s written in the galaxy, now.
Uber’s engineering team has overtaken the finance team, officially, as the world’s number one ridesharing app’s adopter of AI, which Nedkov believes is true.
“There’s no sort of token-maxxing in finance,” Nedkov remarked. “But you do have to be mindful of that. You have to make sure limits are in place.”
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