Of course AI is replacing workers and swallowing up jobs. We've reached that point very quickly, so now how are those who have been replaced by AI going to survive? Food stamps and Welfare??? Start a new career? Becoming educated in another field costs money and even at that there is no guarantee that that job won't be eaten by AI.
The AI job cuts are here - or are they?Amazon's move this week to slash thousands of corporate jobs fed into a longstanding anxiety: that Artificial Intelligence is starting to replace workers.
The tech giant joined a growing list of companies in the US that have pointed to AI technology as a reason behind layoffs.
But some question whether AI is fully to blame - and have voiced scepticism that recent high-profile layoffs are a telling sign of the technology's effect on employment.
Chegg, the online education firm, cited the "new realities" of AI as it announced a 45% reduction in workforce on Monday. When Salesforce cut 4,000 customer service roles last month, its chief executive said AI agents were doing the work.
UPS said on Tuesday that it has cut 48,000 jobs since last year. The delivery company's chief executive previously linked redundancies, in part, to machine learning.
But extrapolating from executives' remarks during cuts is "possibly the worst way" to determine the effects of AI on jobs, said Martha Gimbel, executive director of the Budget Lab at Yale University.
Company-specific dynamics, she said, are often at play.
"There is a real tendency, because everyone is so freaked out about the possible impact of AI on the labour market moving forward, to overreact to individual company announcements," Ms Gimbel said.
Certain subsets of the workforce - recent college graduates and data centre employees, for example - in fact are particularly vulnerable to the technology's adoption....................
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