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"From Amazon to General Motors to Booz Allen Hamilton, layoffs are being announced and blamed on AI. Amazon said it would cut 14,000 corporate jobs. United Parcel Service (UPS) said it had reduced its management workforce by about 14,000 positions over the past 22 months. And Target said it would cut 1,800 corporate roles. Some academic economists have also chimed in: The St. Louis Federal Reserve found a (weak) correlation between theoretical AI exposure and actual AI adoption in 12 occupational categories."

"Yet we remain skeptical of the claim that AI is responsible for these layoffs. A recent MIT Media Lab study found that 95% of generative AI pilot business projects were failing. Another survey by Atlassian concluded that 96% of businesses “have not seen dramatic improvements in organizational efficiency, innovation, or work quality.” Still another study found that 40% of the business people surveyed have received “AI slop” at work in the last month and that it takes nearly two hours, on average, to fix each instance of slop. In addition, they “no longer trust their AI-enabled peers, find them less creative, and find them less intelligent or capable.”

LOOKS TO ME  like they're getting rid of managers instead of actual workers. BUT MCDONALD'S ALREADY HAS... Robots that flip burgers.... Now they've got robots that can pick oranges.... Anybody would be a fool to think that any manual labor job they have can't be taken over by a robot... Now the middle manager so called THINKERS...  finally find they can be taken over by AI driven robots as well... Makes sense to me this Gemini AI that I have can whip up a 10 page report on the history of quantum physics in 3 minutes.... More and more everybody looks to be able to be replaced by AI driven robots.... Everyone is either going to starve to death or they're going to have to institute living wages... For people who no longer have jobs... And will never get jobs thanks to AI and robots..