Anything at massive scale needs AI support, says LinkedIn engineering head

No one would think of LinkedIn as a “massive AI engine”. But that is exactly what LinkedIn’s senior vice-president of engineering Mohak Shroff believes the platform is.

“LinkedIn was founded as this platform that connects talent to opportunity at a massive scale. That’s something any platform can do, but when the words ‘at massive scale’ come in, that implies AI, because you can’t do anything at a massive scale with rules, and you can’t do anything at massive scale manually… you have to apply AI.