Unisys CEO & President Mike Thomson on AI Hype, Layoffs, Data Centers, & the Workforce Reality Check

I talk with Mike Thomson, President and CEO of Unisys, about the real state of AI inside companies. We get into why some organizations are using AI as cover for layoffs, why the backlash against data centers is often built on incomplete information, and why enterprise AI adoption will take years instead of weeks. Mike also explains why technical debt, messy data, governance, security, token costs, and workforce readiness are the real barriers leaders need to understand before they assume AI can simply replace people at scale. YouTube Chapters 00:00 Mike Thomson on AI, leadership, and the workforce 01:17 What Unisys does and Mike’s path to CEO 03:43 AI layoffs, workforce fear, and public backlash 11:23 What Meta’s AI strategy reveals about infrastructure and jobs 15:03 Why data centers are becoming the face of AI backlash 33:17 AI valuations, IPO narratives, technical debt, and enterprise reality Key Topics Covered Unisys, Mike Thomson, Unisys CEO, AI leadership, enterprise AI adoption, AI hype, AI washing, AI layoffs, Meta layoffs, Block layoffs, AI workforce transformation, AI and jobs, AI job displacement, AI upskilling, service desk automation, digital agents, agentic AI, AI backlash, data center backlash, AI data centers, AI infrastructure, tokenomics, AI token costs, AI valuation, Anthropic, OpenAI, Nvidia, frontier AI models, pre-IPO AI companies, AI doomerism, AI ROI, technical debt, master data management, AI governance, AI security, private AI, edge computing, mainframe data, workforce readiness, future of work, Future Ready Leadership, Jacob Morgan ---------------------------------------------- Website: http://www.thefutureorganization.com/ Twitter:   / jacobm   Facebook:   / futuristjacob   Newsletter https://thefutureorganization.com/new... Amazon Book Page: https://www.amazon.com/Jacob-Morgan/e... -------------------------------------------------- Jacob Morgan is a keynote speaker, best-selling author, and futurist. He explores how the world of work is changing, what the future of work is going to look like, and we need to do to prepare. To work with Jacob or have him speak at your event visit TheFutureOrganization.com