Uber is slowing hiring as it increases investment in artificial intelligence, Business Insider reported on May 6. On the company's first-quarter earnings call, CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said autonomous agents now produce roughly 10 percent of Uber's code changes, with human employees still checking the work before it enters a repository. He also said legal, marketing, and engineering teams are adopting AI tools internally, creating what he called employees with superpowers.

Uber is funding that push by controlling headcount growth. CFO Balaji Krishnamurthy said the company underestimated the impact of AI tools when it planned its late-2025 budget, and the CTO said Uber had already spent its 2026 Claude Code budget. The company is asking existing teams to produce more with agents before adding people at the same pace. That makes the tool part of ordinary staffing decisions. A manager asking for another hire now competes with software expected to raise output from the employees already inside the team.