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title: "Beyond Automation at OpenAI"
description: "Arvind KC, Chief People Officer at OpenAI, on why efficiency is the wrong framing for AI, how companies democratize intelligence by amplifying their most valuable capability, \u0026 why EQ becomes the differentiator."
categories: ["office hours","AI"]
keywords: ["Arvind KC","OpenAI","Office Hours","Theory Ventures","Chief People Officer","HR in the AI era","AI at work","hiring with AI","Roblox","Palantir"]
ai_summary: "Arvind KC, Chief People Officer at OpenAI \u0026 former CIO at Palantir, joins Office Hours to discuss the future of the people function. Why efficiency is the wrong frame when model capability doubles every six months. How the people team democratizes AI by amplifying a company's most valuable capability rather than rebuilding the whole org. How span of control shifts from managing seven people to directing hundreds of agents. \u0026 why emotional intelligence becomes the leader's edge when intelligence is cheap."
date: 2026-10-28
lastmod: 2026-10-28
wordCount: 157
readingTime: 1 minutes
canonical_url: https://tomtunguz.com/arvind-kc-office-hours/
author: "Tomasz Tunguz"
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On Friday, November 6th at 10 AM Pacific / 1 PM Eastern, Office Hours will host [Arvind KC](https://www.linkedin.com/in/arvindkc), Chief People Officer at OpenAI & former CIO at Palantir, for a conversation on the future of the people function in the AI era.

We'll talk about :

- Why efficiency is the wrong framing for AI when model capabilities double every six months.
- How the people, teams of companies, can democratize AI & amplify the most valuable capabilities in an organization.
- Span of control changes where an individual grows from being a manager of 7 people to 100, 200, 1,000 agents.
- The importance of emotional intelligence, or EQ, as a differentiator of leaders.

Office Hours is a 15-minute online conversation about a single topic with a luminary in the AI world, where we collect questions ahead of time, accept call-in questions live, in a candid conversation.

[Register here for Office Hours : Beyond Automation at OpenAI with Arvind KC](https://gatsby.events/theory-ventures/rsvp/register?e=beyond-efficiency-where-ai-native-companies-point-intelligence-and-what-stays-human).