OKX Founder Says AI Helps Cut Off Bullshit in Response to Bloomberg Report

• Star Xu said AI will make low-output employees and internal “bullshit” harder to hide.
• OKX plans to evaluate employee AI usage during September performance reviews.
• The exchange has integrated AI tools like Claude and ChatGPT across various departments.

OKX founder and CEO Star Xu said the AI era will increase the value of top talent while exposing employees who focus more on internal politics, presentation, and process management than actual execution.

Responding to a Bloomberg report about OKX integrating AI usage into employee reviews, Xu argued that people are oversimplifying the relationship between artificial intelligence and layoffs.

AI Will Reward High Performers, Says Star Xu

According to Xu, successful companies have always depended on a small group of highly effective operators who deeply understand systems and aggressively push for outcomes.

AI, he said, makes those people even more valuable because they can build workflows, guardrails, and operational structures around AI agents. Moreover, Xu said AI makes it harder for what he called “bullshitters” to hide inside organizations.

Referencing philosopher Harry Frankfurt’s book On Bullshit, Xu argued that some employees focus mainly on impression management instead of real output. He said AI accelerates operational work so quickly that low-value bureaucracy becomes easier to identify.

Xu also argued that AI agents are already approaching the intelligence level of top university graduates in general tasks. However, he said they still lack company-specific judgment, operational context, and deep industry understanding.

His broader point was that AI changes talent requirements instead of simply replacing workers.

OKX Pushes AI Deeper Into Employee Reviews

Crypto exchange OKX is preparing to formally measure how employees use artificial intelligence tools during performance reviews, according to reports.

The company reportedly began pushing staff to integrate AI into daily work earlier this year. Mid-year reviews scheduled for September may now include AI-related metrics such as token usage, workflow efficiency, and time saved on tasks.

The changes come after OKX reduced its headcount by hundreds of employees over the past year. The exchange currently has around 5,000 workers globally. Interestingly, AI was the primary reason behind 26% of all corporate job cut announcements in April.

Inside the company, employees already have access to enterprise versions of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude.

Managers were reportedly instructed to increase AI adoption across departments, including engineering, customer service, product teams, training, and quality assurance.

One major rollout involved an AI-powered customer service knowledge base where bots retrieve information and respond to user requests automatically.

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