Passive voice shenanigans. They expect to lay off. They're the ones doing it.
this post was submitted on 25 May 2026
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When CEOs layouts? We can have 200 workers for their pay which will be "prompt engineers".
Can any 'ai' round up billionaires and corporate CEO's and 'process' them through a woodchipper or guillotine?
That's the only ai company/startup I'm interested in.
Well good news then, 99% of the population is going to force these 1% CEOs to be ...laid off...
I ask again to consider that AI does not have to replace human labour to lead to layoffs. All it has to do is help existing labour to produce more in the same amount of time. In an economy that doesn't suddenly want to buy more product than it previously did, that means letting go of the people whose labour is no longer needed to produce the same amount product it previously had. Whether or not corpos are using AI as cover for layoffs, if today's AI increases productivity, it very likely will lead to layoffs. And there are signs that it does indeed increase productivity in some tasks in certain sectors.
what were the last 3 years,? the other AI-DRIVEN layoffs. with the amount OF AI startups they are peddling in every tech conference, im not surprised the event-goers are laid off as soon as the event ended.