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A CEO who advises other CEOs on how to use AI to replace human jobs doesn't seem to be possessing a whole lotta guilt — or self-awareness.

Artificial Intelligence

CEO Brags That He Gets “Extremely Excited” Firing People and Replacing Them With AI

By Frank Landymore

CEO Jensen Huang has an ominous warning for the labor market, which comes just after Nvidia became the most valuable company in history.

Artificial Intelligence

Nvidia CEO Says He Has Plans to Either Change or Eliminate Every Single Person’s Job With AI

Bernie Sanders has become one of the most surprising AI boosters in politics — and he's getting his intel straight from the source.

Artificial Intelligence

Bernie Sanders Issues Warning About How AI Is Really Being Used

By Noor Al-Sibai

A Microsoft exec is claiming that the company has already saved $500 million as it automates thousands of jobs formerly held by humans.

Artificial Intelligence

Insider Claims Microsoft Saved Half a Billion Dollars by Automating Low-Level Jobs

By Noor Al-Sibai

An alarming new trend has emerged in the world of management: bosses using AI to decide who to promote, who to discipline, and who to fire.

Artificial Intelligence

Bosses Are Using AI to Decide Who to Fire

CEOs are increasingly declaring human workers will soon go extinct, but recent jobs data suggests a different story.

Artificial Intelligence

CEOs Say AI Is Poised to Wipe Out an Astonishing Number of Jobs

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has some ideas on how to harness the revolutionary power of artificial intelligence.

Artificial Intelligence

Bernie Sanders: If AI Is Doing Such Amazing Work, Everyone Should Get a Four-Day Workweek

AI has done something amazing: it's caused the job application process -- which was already a nightmare -- to become even worse.

Artificial Intelligence

Applying to Jobs Has Become an AI-Powered Wasteland

As AI adoption spreads, CEOs are increasingly using the tech to justify layoffs, or to anticipate layoffs coming in the future.

Artificial Intelligence

CEOs Using AI to Terrorize Their Employees

Risk analyst Ian Bremmer pointed out on "Real Time With Bill Maher" that AI has ruined the "learn to code" cottage industry.

Artificial Intelligence

Risk Expert Says “Learn to Code” Is Now Worse Advice Than “Get a Face Tattoo”

By Noor Al-Sibai

As a major contradiction brews between what AI is supposed to do and what it actually does, one software engineer is sounding the alarm.

Artificial Intelligence

Engineer: With AI, “Anybody Whose Job Is Done on a Computer All Day Is Over… It’s Just a Matter of Time”

As AI agents have yet to pay for themselves, more and more executives are waking up to the sloppy reality of AI hype.

Artificial Intelligence

Companies That Replaced Humans With AI Are Realizing Their Mistake

So far, French startup Moment Labs has raised $37 million to build its video production software meant to cut the need for humans.

Artificial Intelligence

Tech Startup Raises $24 Million to Replace Hollywood With AI Slop

The CEO of layaway startup Klarna is claiming that AI is coming for your white-collar jobs — even though such a project didn't work for him.

Artificial Intelligence

CEO Says AI Will Replace So Many Jobs That It’ll Cause a Major Recession

By Noor Al-Sibai

Billionaire tech tycoon Elad Gil is rolling out the private equity playbook, complete with a heaping dose of artificial intelligence.

Artificial Intelligence

A Billionaire Is Buying Entire Businesses and Converting Them to Run With AI

As calls grow to stop treating its workers like robots, Amazon has decided to cut out the middle man and just use actual robots.

Amazon Testing Humanoid Robots to Ride in Vans, Hand-Deliver Packages

Anthropic researchers are warning that humans may soon be little more than "meat robots" for near-future AI overlords.

Anthropic Researchers Warn That Humans Could End Up Being “Meat Robots” Controlled by AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

It looks like the "learn to code" push is backfiring spectacularly for those who majored in computer science in college.

“Learn to Code” Backfires Spectacularly as Comp-Sci Majors Suddenly Have Sky-High Unemployment

By Noor Al-Sibai

Artificial intelligence could wipe out half of all entry-level white collar jobs, if Dario Amodei is to be believed.

CEO of Anthropic Warns That AI Will Destroy Huge Proportion of Well-Paying Jobs

Unemployment among recent college grads is rising, and research suggests artificial intelligence is to blame.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Is Destroying Gen Z’s Chances at a Stable Career

Women in wealthy nations are three times more likely to face heightened levels of automation risk than their male counterparts.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Is Replacing Women’s Jobs Specifically

A former software engineer of 20 years is sounding the alarm on the reality of AI taking over the workplace.

A Software Engineer Who Was Replaced by AI Was Forced to Live in a Trailer After Getting Rejected from 800 Jobs

Years after outsourcing marketing and customer service gigs to AI, the Swedish company Klarna is looking to hire its humans back.

Artificial Intelligence

Company Regrets Replacing All Those Pesky Human Workers With AI, Just Wants Its Humans Back

A former SpaceX employee with Crohn's disease says he was carefully timed when visiting the bathroom — and fired after he took too long.

A SpaceX Employee Says He Was Fired for the Most Insane Reason

By Victor Tangermann

Looking for work is already arduous enough — but for one job-seeker, the process was made worse by an insane AI recruiter.

Artificial Intelligence

Deranged Video Shows AI Job Recruiter Absolutely Losing It During an Interview

By Noor Al-Sibai

Marc Andreessen recently argued that the AI revolution will take over for all jobs, except for his, coincidentally.

Artificial Intelligence

Top Venture Capitalist Says AI Will Replace Pretty Much All Jobs Except His, Which Relies on His Unique Genius

The emergence of generative AI, may have already begun to slowly replace young college graduates with algorithms.

Artificial Intelligence

Signs Grow That AI Is Starting to Seriously Bite Into the Job Market

By Victor Tangermann

An experiment by researchers at Carnegie Melon University staffed a fake software company with AI Agents, and the results were dismal.

Artificial Intelligence

Professors Staffed a Fake Company Entirely With AI Agents, and You’ll Never Guess What Happened

As if the market weren't already bad enough, applicants are now having to compete with AI-generated job seekers.

Artificial Intelligence

When You Apply for a Job Now, You’re Competing With Non-Human Entities

By Noor Al-Sibai

One heavily vested venture capitalist is still inflating the bubble on AI hype, claiming lawyers and HR workers are on the chopping block.

Artificial Intelligence

Investor Says AI Is Already “Fully Replacing People”

As research laboratories struggle to recruit new talent, one Harvard professor is giving his entire salary away to keep his staff.

Harvard Professor Quietly Gives His Lab Workers His Entire Salary Every Year

Donald Trump and his band of minions keep insisting that we could bring iPhone manufacturing home. It's a long shot.

Trump Believes Entire iPhones Can Be Manufactured in America

As Donald Trump drags the US economy into the gutter, Chinese netizens are poking fun at the reversal of fortunes his policy represents.

China Creates Mocking AI Video of Average Americans Working in Garment Factory

Facing the loss of his home, one disgruntled Uber driver decided to take matters into his own hands and fly to Uber Headquarters.

Advanced Transport

After Uber’s App Cost Him His Job, a Disgruntled Driver Flew to San Francisco and Showed Up at Its Headquarters

Drivers for rideshare giants like Uber say they're being suddenly deactivated on the apps, with no fair process to dispute the decision.

Advanced Transport

Uber Drivers Say They’re Getting Locked Out of the App and Trapped in a Kafkaesque Limbo When They Try to Dispute It

A multinational energy company found out it messed with the wrong employee, after the disgruntled man's antics disrupted the whole operation.

Man Installed “Kill Switch” So That If He Was Ever Fired, All Hell Would Break Loose

High-skilled freelancers are finding their wages suppressed as job opportunities drop, all thanks to the introduction of AI.

Artificial Intelligence

Freelancers Are Getting Ruined by AI

High school shop classes are back as students prepare for a future in which artificial intelligence has taken over white-collar jobs.

Artificial Intelligence

High Schools Training Students for Manual Labor as AI Looms Over College and Jobs

By Noor Al-Sibai

New research suggests the average American doesn't typically use artificial intelligence at work — but those who do are usually educated.

People With This Level of Education Use AI the Most at Work

By Noor Al-Sibai

A top boss at Google has made it clear that employees should make enormous sacrifices to develop AGI, as long as it makes him money.

Google Cofounder Exhorts Employees to Work 60-Hour Weeks to Create AI Designed to Replace Them

A shocking startup pitch backed by Y Combinator is causing a firestorm for its depiction of human workers as anonymous drones.

Artificial Intelligence

Y Combinator Pulls Support for AI Startup After Video of Boss Barking at Human Worker, Calling Him “Number 17”

A new analysis predicts that AI hype might drastically disrupt the economy well before the tech is ready to transform our lives.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Hype Will Plunge America Into Financial Ruin, Economist Warns

An AI startup has secured a massive valuation, and its business model rests on smashing full-time jobs into low wage temp work.

Startup Investors Foaming at the Mouth To Carve Up Your Job With AI

Silicon Valleys software engineers are finding their previously ironclad careers crumbling under the growing cost of AI development.

Silicon Valley Software Engineers Horrified as They Can’t Easily Find Jobs Anymore

One of the frontrunners in language model development is now asking its applicants to save the AI for after the interview.

Top AI Company Anthropic Pleads With People Seeking Jobs There Not to Use AI for Job Applications

Google's office with dark red, scary clouds looming behind.

Something Bad Is Brewing Inside Google

As Saudi Arabia pushes ever forward with its futuristic NEOM project, the endeavor's staggering death toll has been revealed.

Science & Energy

A Staggering Number of Workers Have Reportedly Died While Building Saudi Arabia’s 100-Mile Skyscraper

By Noor Al-Sibai

In today's techno-dystopia, using a meal voucher for non-food items can get you fired — if that voucher comes from Meta, at least.

Facebook Fired High-Paid Staffers for Using Meal Vouchers to Buy Toothpaste

By Noor Al-Sibai

Bad news for standing desk zealots: you may not be as superior to your seated counterparts as you once thought.

Bad News, Home Office Grunts: Standing Desks Could Actually Be Bad for You

By Noor Al-Sibai

Artificial Intelligence

Man Baffled When He Shows Up for Job Interview and the Interviewer Is an AI Avatar

By Noor Al-Sibai

A Berkeley computer scientist is raising alarm bells about the state of the job market for new college graduates struggling to find work.

Berkeley Coding Professor Says Even Grads With 4.0 GPA Can’t Find Jobs

By Noor Al-Sibai

As the tech industry sees more and more layoffs, one desperate tech worker resorted to putting up flyers outside of Google.

Desperate Tech Worker Hangs Up Hundreds of Flyers Looking for Job Outside Facebook and Google

By Noor Al-Sibai

A worker tasked with training Tesla Autopilot data said they were often advised by their superiors to ignore road signs.

Workers Training Tesla’s Autopilot Say They Were Told to Ignore Road Signs to Avoid Making Cars Drive Like a “Robot”

By Noor Al-Sibai

One of Tesla's unfortunate Autopilot workers has learned the hard way that the problematic assisted driving feature comes with a human toll.

Tesla Autopilot Worker Horrified by What Job Actually Entails

By Noor Al-Sibai

An Arizona bank employee was found dead in her cubicle days after her death after clocking in on a Friday and never clocking back out.

Employee Found Dead in Cubicle After Apparently Dying There Days Earlier

By Noor Al-Sibai

The CEO of Amazon Web Services suggested in leaked audio that human devs may not be coding in as little as two years.

Artificial Intelligence

In Leaked Audio, Amazon Cloud CEO Says Human Developers Will Soon Be a Thing of the Past

By Noor Al-Sibai

Despite executives' expectations, a new study has found that artificial intelligence is hindering, rather than helping, employees' workloads.

Artificial Intelligence

Study Finds That AI Is Adding to Employees’ Workload and Burning Them Out

By Noor Al-Sibai

Caught with pie on their faces, some companies are copping to using ChatGPT and other generative AI tools to write important legal documents.

Company “Sheepishly” Admits Its Employee Handbook Was Generated With ChatGPT, Doesn’t Have Anti-Harassment Policy

By Noor Al-Sibai

Some Tesla workers didn't find out they'd been laid off until they showed up to work Monday morning and were locked out.

Tesla Staff Didn’t Know They Were Laid Off Until They Tried to Enter the Building

By Noor Al-Sibai

SpaceX is suing the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) because, according to the company's claim, the agency itself is unconstitutional.

SpaceX Sues Government Over Claim It Fired Employees for Criticizing Elon Musk

By Noor Al-Sibai

AI has a very dirty secret: that the people hired to train it are making literal pennies on the dollar, which is tantamount to slave labor.

Artificial Intelligence

That AI You’re Using Was Trained By Slave Labor, Basically

By Noor Al-Sibai

Workers overseas are being tasked with labeling images, allowing AI algorithms to make sense of the world. They're also being exploited.

Artificial Intelligence

AI’s Dirty Secret: Poor People in the Developing World Are Doing Most of the Work

By Victor Tangermann

Google CEO Sundar Pichai seems to be very confused as to why anyone might suggest that some AIs may replace human labor.

Google CEO Baffled by Suggestion That AI Will Take People’s Jobs

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OpenAI's finances are all over the place, but one thing is clear — none of the money it spends is going to the workers hired to train ChatGPT.

ChatGPT’s Dirty Secret: It’s Powered by “Grunts” Making $15 Per Hour

By Noor Al-Sibai