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Is AI Coming for Your Job? Depends Who You Are
Is AI coming for your job? It depends who you are. In January, Amazon cut 16,000 corporate jobs. Meanwhile in Abilene, Texas, a local electrician lost two of his lead men to a data center paying double. Same economy, same AI boom: one guy gets a pink slip, the other gets poached.
Cole and Savannah weigh the scary side (Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman's 12-to-18-month prediction, and AI as the top reason for announced layoffs in May at 40% of all cuts) against the skeptic side (59% of hiring managers admit they play up AI when explaining cuts, and MIT found about 95% of company AI projects…
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