"AI Will Leave a Lot of White-Collar People Behind" - Ford CEO Latest to Claim AI Will Wipe Out Millions of Jobs
- Ford Motor CEO Jim Farley stated that 50 percent of white-collar jobs in America will be replaced by artificial intelligence.
- Amazon CEO Andy Jassy warned that AI will shrink the corporate workforce, stating, 'We need to stop sugarcoating the situation.'
- Consultancy Challenger, Gray & Christmas reported that out of 286,679 planned layoffs this year, only 20,000 were linked to automation, with merely 75 tied to AI.
- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman argued that while AI will take some jobs, it will also create more opportunities.
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David Author, professor at MIT, warns that generation AI will not eliminate jobs, but it could depreciate the value of certain human skills, as happened with typists.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is fundamentally changing the labour market. Amazon and Ford expect massive job losses.
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