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The AI Layoff Myth
Walk into any boardroom or investor meeting right now and you’ll hear the same narrative: AI is eliminating jobs at scale. Executives cite it as justification for workforce reductions. Investors ask about it in every portfolio review. Business media repeats it as fact.
It isn’t.
The AI layoff narrative is sloppy, opportunistic, and, in most cases, factually wrong. The companies attributing cuts to artificial intelligence are largely using a convenient, forward-looking explanation for decisions that have nothing to do with AI efficiency gains. The evidence is thin. The logic is thinner. And…
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