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As layoffs deepen, AI’s role in the cuts is murky – but it definitely has one
Layoff season is lengthening and deepening in tech – at the same time AI investments by tech companies are doing the same. They're linked.
One topic keeps coming up in conversations I’m having with technologists, executives, industry leader and frontline workers on all sides of both trends: Specifically, how much the AI boom is complicit in the great and continued culling. Long-term, that may be the case, but right now it’s all ‘regrettable’ downsizing alongside massive, budget-busting spend on AI products and innovation, with no silver lining in sight about when those generate whole new roles and opportunities for those workers displaced in the meantime. There’s a need for greater transparency about when AI will occupy roles people once did as these large companies continue their roll-out, but we’re unlikely to get that in the midst of the action: More likely it’ll be studied and uncovered later by researchers trying to assess the impact.
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