It’s been a tough year for tech workers as the industry has been hit a record number of layoffs. Nearly 120,000 tech workers have been let go this year as companies slim down their staffs in the name of AI productivity. As consensus grows in Silicon Valley and Wall Street about an incoming artificial intelligence “job apocalypse,” there are few answers on what comes next.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei have recently tempered their previous apocalyptic predictions for the future of white-collar work, but Wall Street and their fellow Silicon Valley CEOs are holding fast to their predictions that AI will reshape how people work forever.