Despite executive warnings about AI replacing workers, only 75 job cuts were explicitly tied to AI implementation out of 286,679 layoffs this year. The real story is more complex.
What kind of source is GazeOn? Based off the top menu items, looks like a pro-AI rag. Biased source.
To give them an ounce of credit, there are many factors that would prevent any sort of accurate reporting on those numbers. To take that credit away, they confidently harp on their own poorly sourced number of 75.
Whether AI is explicitly stated as the cause, or even effective at the job functions its attempting to replace is irrelevant. Businesses are plowing ahead with it and it is certainly resulting in job cuts, to say nothing of the interference its causing in the hiring process once you’re unemployed.
We need to temper our fears of an AI driven world, but we also need to treat the very real and observable consequences of it as the threat that it is.
What kind of source is GazeOn? Based off the top menu items, looks like a pro-AI rag. Biased source.
To give them an ounce of credit, there are many factors that would prevent any sort of accurate reporting on those numbers. To take that credit away, they confidently harp on their own poorly sourced number of 75.
Whether AI is explicitly stated as the cause, or even effective at the job functions its attempting to replace is irrelevant. Businesses are plowing ahead with it and it is certainly resulting in job cuts, to say nothing of the interference its causing in the hiring process once you’re unemployed.
We need to temper our fears of an AI driven world, but we also need to treat the very real and observable consequences of it as the threat that it is.