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Read the signs of Trump’s federal firings: AI is coming for private sector jobs too
Dismissing 6,700 IRS workers during tax season is a recipe for chaos but AI’s disruption will be much more widespread
The Trump administrationrecently announced that it would be laying off approximately 6,700 workers at the Internal Revenue Service, about 8% of the people employed by the agency. Republicans are pushing to either extend or make permanent many of the provisions of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, most of which expire at the end of this year. The financing platform Klarna announced last summer it was laying off about 2,000 workers – half of its workforce – as a result of its new AI customer service system that did their work instead.
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