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

Workers are rewriting old LinkedIn entries to look more AI-ready, researchers say.

David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images US workers are rewriting their LinkedIn profiles to include AI skills and remove DEI mentions.

Researchers tracked 29.4 million US LinkedIn profiles and found one in five users revised old jobs.

"Workers modify their résumé to reflect what they believe employers want to hear," they said.

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 "artificial intelligence" to previous roles has risen more than sixfold, the paper said.

The profiles were collected by labor-market data firm Revelio Labs from August 2020 through January 2026.

At the same time, workers became less likely to add remote-work language — including "remote," " work from home ," and "WFH" — to past roles.

By the end of 2025, workers were adding those terms about as often as they were deleting them, a shift that coincided with a wave of return-to-office mandates.

The researchers also found a sharp decline in additions of terms including "diversity," "equity," "inclusion," and "DEI" at the beginning of 2025, coinciding with President Donald Trump's executive orders in January of that year targeting DEI programs .

"Workers modify their résumé to reflect what they believe employers want to hear," the authors wrote.

A shifting job-market signal The LinkedIn edits offer a glimpse of how workers are trying to position themselves for a changing job market that's increasingly being shaped by AI.