AI layoffs are looking more and more like corporate fiction that's masking a darker reality, Oxford Economics suggests | Fortune

"Firms don't appear to be replacing workers with AI on a significant scale," the firm said. It suspects some are trying to "dress up layoffs" as good news.

Companies Are Blaming AI for Layoffs. The Real Reason Will Piss You Off.

180,000 tech workers lost their jobs in 2025. Companies say it’s because of AI. Oxford researchers call BS.

The AI Layoff Trap

If AI displaces human workers faster than the economy can reabsorb them, it risks eroding the very consumer demand firms depend on. We show that knowing this is not enough for firms to stop it. In...

Current and former Block workers say AI can’t do their jobs after Jack Dorsey’s mass layoffs: ‘You can’t really AI that’

The CEO said he cut the company’s workforce by 4,000 people – almost in half – because of gains in AI productivity

CEOs Say AI Is Making Work More Efficient. Employees Tell a Different Story.

How much time workers say the technology saves them on the job is vastly different from what executives report.

Execs are embracing AI more than their employees are, new research suggests

Research from HR software company Dayforce suggests that executives are leaning into AI far more than their employees.

Do AI-enabled companies need fewer people? | Seldo.com

AI-native startups are doing more with less — 40% smaller teams, 6x higher revenue per employee — and the data confirms it's not just hype. But the wave of new jobs I predicted hasn't materialized so far. Compute is replacing labor. Will that change?

Why AI hasn’t replaced software engineers, and won’t

Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kappor take on the question of AI job losses through the lens of a profession that is uniquely suited to AI disruption - software engineering. In …

The AI Roles Continuum: Blurring the Boundary Between Research and...

The rapid scaling of deep neural networks and large language models has collapsed the once-clear divide between "research" and "engineering" in AI organizations. Drawing on a qualitative synthesis...

The Age Of Artificial Intelligence: Americans' AI Use Increases While Views On It Sour, Quinnipiac University Poll On AI Finds; 7 In 10 Think AI Will Cut Jobs With Gen Z The Most Pessimistic | Quinnipiac University Poll

"The contradiction between use and trust of AI is striking. Fifty-one percent say they use AI for research, and many also use it for writing, work, and data analysis. But only 21 percent trust AI-generated information most or almost all of the time. Americans are clearly adopting AI, but they are doing so with deep hesitation, not deep trust," said Chetan Jaiswal, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Computer Science and Associate Chair, Department of Computing, Quinnipiac University School of Computing and Engineering.

Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition “Atrophied and Unprepared”

Researchers find that the more people use AI at their job, the less critical thinking they use.

Ethical AI Departures — Who Quit OpenAI, Google, Anthropic Over Safety Concerns

59 researchers and executives who quit or were fired from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, Meta, and xAI over AI safety concerns. Sourced departures, writings, and prediction tracking.

Why We Need More Women In The AI Revolution

Research suggests that women make up less than a third of AI professionals and only 18% of AI researchers globally.

Pacing the Frontier

A statement from over 1000 employees of frontier AI companies

Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

Workers around the world are not getting what they want from AI

A survey of workers in 60 countries found that a majority of those facing the threat of AI-driven job loss do not trust companies or governments to manage the transition fairly.