Like it or not, LinkedIn is still one of the best ways to find jobs online . But since 2023, the site has been experimenting with generative AI , making it possible for AI to help you find new jobs, compose messages, connect with others, and build profiles and job descriptions. Some users even saw AI prompts appear under each post .
While this AI integration is considered useful, it can quickly become intrusive, as evidenced by a comment under an ad post asking how to turn off LinkedIn AI . If you're looking to make your online recruiting and job search as human-friendly as possible, here's a quick breakdown of LinkedIn's AI features and which ones you can turn off.
Wait, why doesn’t my LinkedIn have AI?
LinkedIn's AI integration is widespread across the site, but there's a catch: It's reserved for premium users. This means free users don’t have to work hard if they want to skip AI on LinkedIn. They still see the occasional ad suggesting buying Premium to access certain AI features, but Premium ads are nothing new to LinkedIn.
If you do pay for the premium version, your AI integration will be harder to ignore—LinkedIn considers it part of your subscription, so it won't want you to turn off these paid features.
LinkedIn currently uses artificial intelligence on career pages, recruiting tools, below posts and in most text boxes. Some (but not all) of these can be turned off, and more annoyingly, the AI features you have access to vary among the different premium levels.
Where does LinkedIn use artificial intelligence?
LinkedIn’s AI integration is most prevalent in four areas. The first is a job listing.
With the Advanced Career tier, which I signed up for a free trial at the time of writing, job listings will now show prompts for LinkedIn’s AI chatbot below the job description. These include questions such as “Am I right for this job?” and "How can I best fit into this job?" The answers to these questions often read like a summary of your job profile or job description, whereas "Tell me more about [employer]" primarily summarizes the company ’s LinkedIn page.
The second is in LinkedIn Recruiter, where users can run AI-assisted candidate searches, get help filling out project fields, and send AI-assisted messages . These features require an enterprise-level LinkedIn Recruiter subscription, so I couldn't test them in this article. Please note that the Recruiter Lite tier of LinkedIn Premium does not have access to these tools.
Advanced users can also find AI in most text boxes on LinkedIn and in their profiles. Here, LinkedIn will provide help drafting a message, post, profile title, or about page. One oddity: Even though the Sales Navigator Core and Recruiter Lite plans cost more compared to the Career and Business tiers, they don't have access to AI message drafts.
Perhaps LinkedIn’s most visible AI feature is “AI bullet points on feed posts.” Sometimes, when browsing your feed, these will appear next to the flash icon and will ask questions related to the post. Clicking on them will open LinkedIn's AI chatbot and ask a question.
How to turn off LinkedIn AI
The bad news is that most of LinkedIn's AI features can't be turned off, so your best bet is to just sign up for the premium version with the features you want. You can see a short list of available AI features when you sign up. Once you've signed up, you can double-check which AI features you have access to by clicking the "View your premium features" tab in the upper left corner of the site.
That said, there are steps you can take to reduce the presence of artificial intelligence in your feed. The most straightforward way to disable LinkedIn AI is in LinkedIn Recruiter, where the ability to send AI-assisted messages can be turned off at the admin and seat levels.
To turn off AI-assisted messaging in the LinkedIn Recruiter management tool, hover over your profile on the Recruiter home page and click Product Settings . Navigate to Company Settings > Preferences in the left column and click Edit under Enable AI-assisted message autodrafts . Close the AI-assisted message and click Save .
To turn off AI-assisted messaging at the recruiter seat level, hover over your profile on the recruiter home page, select Product Settings from the drop-down menu, and click Messages under My Account Settings in the left column transfer. Click Edit under Enable AI-Assisted AutoDraft , turn off the feature, and then click Save .
All other users can easily ignore LinkedIn's AI-assisted messages, even if they can't disable them entirely. This is because AI messages are currently only visible when clicking "Messages" in the "Meet the Recruiting Team" section of a job page or in the intro section of another user's profile. Messages sent through the message window in the lower right corner do not display the "Write with AI" prompt .
Unfortunately, there's no way to prevent the "Write with AI" prompt from appearing when writing a new post or editing your profile, so it's important to know what it looks like to avoid accidentally clicking on it.
When editing the Title or About section of your profile, the "Written with AI" box will appear below the text box with a gold flash next to it and an Advanced tab to the right. Avoid clicking on it to prevent using the AI, but don't worry if you accidentally click on it. If you don't like the AI's suggestions, you can click the "Revert" button to undo its changes, and the "Dislike" button to mark the suggestions as bad.
It's easier to ignore the AI integration on LinkedIn posts because the "Rewrite with AI" button will be grayed out until you've written a few lines of text. If you accidentally clicked it, click the Undo button to delete the changes to the text. You can still say "thumbs up" or "thumbs down" to the AI rewrite.
As for AI tips on job listings or AI highlights in feed posts? The best way to avoid them is not to sign up for Premium.
