Mark Cuban is back with more career advice in the age of AI.
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In a Wednesday X post, the billionaire former “Shark Tank” investor listed out five things that employees should take note of before deciding whether to stay put or leave for another company:
Is your company growing?As an employee, what is it that you do and can do in the future, to better contribute to those profits/goals?Are you intellectually challenged in your job?Are you spending as much time as you can find to learn all you can about AI?Does your CEO understand AI?
Expanding on the fifth question, Cuban said: “If the CEO has no clue, start to think about another job. Your company is going to be challenged over the next few years.”
He also talked about the importance of being AI-literate. He said that if the company is growing and employees feel intellectually challenged in their roles, they can use AI to contribute to that growth.
“The company will need as many people like you as it can get. It has a really good chance to outperform its competitors, because it has an AI literate workforce,” Cuban added.
He said that AI is not easy to implement and is not a “silver bullet that guarantees success,” but rather a tool that can help “smart people make smarter decisions.”
This is not the first time Cuban has given career advice to workers on how to get ahead with AI.
In December, he said new graduates should opt for working in small- to medium-sized businesses, where they could lead the deployment of AI agents, rather than big companies that don’t need that skill.
And in April, he gave practical advice on which prompts to feed into Claude to sharpen skills. The prompts were, “Tell me how to be an expert at creating agents for small businesses,” “Create study guides that ask me questions,” and “Correct me and adapt to my knowledge level.”
But he’s also been cautious about AI, saying that people who use AI to cut corners and outsource thinking in their work will not go far.
“I think right now we’re bifurcating into two types of ways or two types of people that use AI — people who use AI so they don’t have to learn anything and people who use AI so they can learn everything,” Cuban said during a conference in April.
