Workers are rewriting their LinkedIn histories to add AI skills. Here’s what they’re dropping.

Workers are retrospectively adding AI skills to their LinkedIn profiles — while remote-work and DEI language is falling out of favor.

That is the finding of a new National Bureau of Economic Research working paper, which analyzed monthly snapshots of 29.4 million US LinkedIn profiles.

Nearly a fifth of those accounts had retroactively changed the title or description of a job they had already left, the non-peer-reviewed paper said, which was authored by Stanford economist Nicholas Bloom and researchers at Stanford and Revelio Labs.

Since ChatGPT’s release in late 2022, the number of retroactive additions of terms such as “AI,” “GPT,” “LLM,” and…