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...so you can bank on announcements citing ai led productivity gains, and then later as necessary survival measures as ai led productivity gains fail to meet expectations.
Rehiring later will be quitely done.
By then, the CEOs have met targets, given shareholders what they want, and taken their bonuses. Its literally win-win for those in the game. The rest of us aren't even pawns in the game, as pawns have some value. We factor as an expendable commodity.
The real problem is the makets pile in to the first company that does it, so everyone else by default has to join in.
The CEOs need metrics they can make pretty graphs to put in shareholder reports, so you end up with "use ai" mandates.
If share price goes up throughout any part of this process the CEO has made a "rational" and "correct" decision according to the people that write the CEOs cheques.
Layoffs arev the default cost saving tool.../cont'd