The Signal Crisis
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The Signal Crisis
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What happens when our systems can capture more information about people than ever before… but we trust those signals less and less?
In this opening episode of The Signal Lab, Ian Davidson explores the growing “signal crisis” unfolding across hiring, education, identity, and AI.
Degrees, resumes, search results, portfolios, and even human-created content are all being reshaped by a world where almost everything about a person can become data. At the same time, employers, educators, and institutions are struggling to determine which signals still matter — and which can actually be trusted.
This episode introduces the core thesis behind The Signal Lab: that a new infrastructure layer is quietly emerging beneath the future of work and opportunity. One built around signals, skills, identity, verification, trust, and interoperability.
Topics explored include:
- The collapse of traditional labor market signals
- AI’s acceleration of the trust problem
- Why hiring systems are struggling to understand human capability
- The emerging infrastructure behind Learning and Employment Records (LERs)
- The future of trusted data in education and workforce systems
Welcome to The Signal Lab — inside the systems shaping opportunity.