AI blamed for 112,713 job cuts, but the labor data isn’t buying it
Employers keep citing AI for layoffs. Challenger, Gray & Christmas and Lightcast say the plan must name the work AI changes.
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📉 Job cuts attributed to AI5
AI or the economy? Either way, NAB job cuts a canary in the coalmine
Artificial intelligence is changing the nature of knowledge work, and banks are big investors. It seems only a matter of time before the two forces collide.
Read the original →NAB job losses: The Grinch is stealing this Christmas from NAB workers, AI comes next
Artificial intelligence is not officially to blame for NAB’s latest round of job losses, but it will be next time around.
Read the original →AI Took His Job. A Chinese Court Awarded Him $38,000.
After his company asked him to accept a pay cut and demotion following an AI rollout, a fintech worker sued and won.
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- AI is getting harder to ignore: Why NAB is cutting deepThe Australian · 10/20 07:46 UTC
🧊 Hiring freezes1
Germany news: Siemens warns on AI eliminating entry-level jobs
Siemens says young people could lack essential capabilities if routine tasks are taken over by AI. The warning comes as Germany agrees to deepen cooperation on AI with US tech company Nvidia.
Read the original →📊 Jobs data and the labour market1
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- Is AI Already Taking Jobs in Seattle?MyNorthwest.com · 10/19 23:24 UTC
🇯🇵 Layoffs and AI in Japan3
"AI frontline": Even Anthropic's employees lose jobs to AI (JoongAng Ilbo Japanese edition)
Even Anthropic, at the forefront of AI technology, was not free from the employment impact of the technology it built. AI agents' working hours this year exceeded six times those of human employees, and hiring of new developers fell to one third of last year's level.
Read the original →AI targets clerical jobs, posing bigger threat to women's employment: 1 in 10 women in high-income countries at risk
An International Labour Organization study found that 1 in 10 women in high-income countries work in the occupations at highest risk of replacement by AI. The study notes that AI is concentrated on repetitive, routine clerical and administrative tasks.
Read the original →AI reduces junior hiring, with human attention becoming the bottleneck at Anthropic
Anthropic published a report on AI's effect on employment on the 16th (US time). The two published reports describe changes in how Anthropic uses AI, as well as changes in hiring and employment. Junior-level engineers have decreased and ways of working have changed greatly, while concern about unemployment remains high even among people who make heavy use of AI.
Read the original →The analysis and visual summary are in the Oct 20 PM issue. Japanese version here.