"One of the things that I think people misunderstand about these layoffs is they think that it indicates somehow AI is successfully replacing all of these workers. But what’s important to understand is, these tech companies, they’re trying to get cost efficiencies now, in part because they’re spending an extraordinary amount of money trying to develop AI technologies. And they’re actually making a future bet that when they lay off the current human employees to gain current cost efficiencies, that they will hopefully then be able to automate them away later with AI. But it’s not, in fact, a representation of what AI can currently do.
But there are plenty of other sectors outside of the AI industry that are now doing the same thing. They’re also trying to make this future bet that they will be able to automate workers. And so, that is what’s actually having this cascading effect on the job market, where AI is being used as a justification to accelerate layoffs."
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/5/22/data_centers_and_ai
#AI #BigTech #AIRegulation #DataCenters #Trump #Layoffs
Miguel Afonso Caetano 🦾 🌹
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