• bazinga@discuss.tchncs.de
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    26 days ago

    I would be very interested in any real studies of job losses due to AI. I believe much of it is a hoax. Companies just use this in their PR communication as the “reason” to let go people. The real deal might be more that there are many companies which want to cut costs as departments always tend to grow but couldn’t fire anybody due to good labor laws - I am excluding explicitly the US here. The AI reason is still accepted as it is relatively new. As soon as regulations step up, and transparency increases it might become public that companies are lying about the let go reasons…just my thoughts here. Have as said not really seen any study around this.

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      26 days ago

      These most recent round of layoffs have nothing to do with AI and everything to do with over hiring. AI is just a convenient excuse.