New Delhi, April 27 -- Early on in their new book, Open to Work: How to Get Ahead in the Age of AI, authors Ryan Roslansky and Aneesh Raman, EVP of LinkedIn and Microsoft Office and chief economic opportunity officer at LinkedIn respectively, offer sage advice. In "moments of existential crisis," they write, "the choice isn't between success and failure; it's between action and paralysis." The crisis they refer to is the adoption of AI in workplaces around the world, giving rise to fears of job loss, but unlike many big-tech leaders, Roslansky and Raman aren't interested in peddling hollow assurance or acting gung-ho about the AI revolution.

As leaders of a professional networking platform with over one billion users, they approach AI's ...