Andrew Yang Warns AI May Wipe Out 40 Million US Jobs

https://www.businessinsider.com/andrew-yang-ai-may-wipe-out-40-million-us-jobs-2025-12

34 Comments

  1. From the article 

    Salesforce, Walmart, HP, IBM, and Fiverr have all cited AI in recent rounds of layoffs or announced layoffs tied to AI.

    “44% of American jobs are either repetitive manual or repetitive cognitive and thus could be subject to AI and automation,” Yang said in the interview with CNN. “We’re seeing that unfold right now

  2. From the article 

    Salesforce, Walmart, HP, IBM, and Fiverr have all cited AI in recent rounds of layoffs or announced layoffs tied to AI.

    “44% of American jobs are either repetitive manual or repetitive cognitive and thus could be subject to AI and automation,” Yang said in the interview with CNN. “We’re seeing that unfold right now

  3. When I see this all I get is “another guy quoted saying AI is going to change the world to try and delay the inevitable crash”

  4. Interesting, we truly are in unprecedented times. Its actually fascinating that the end product of capitalism is the self destruction of capitalism.

  5. The alternative (doing jobs that could be done just as well by a machine, assuming we reach that point) is ridiculous though. 

  6. Okay then, and who is going to buy the things those jobs create or sell?
    Where is the buying power gonna come from if there is no jobs for the people?

  7. If that’s true, it will also wipe out 40 million customers who no longer have the money to buy what these companies that now use AI are offering.

  8. Good time to start a wall building company. Anyone with means will start gating themselves off like they do in 3rd world countries.

  9. Techbro who once shilled crypto as next big thing, now shills next tech as next big thing.

    Now I’m just waiting for the money fueled furnace to run out of fuel. And I want to see people in jail after this.

  10. If no one has a job, then monetizing people’s information is useless when no one can afford to buy your shit? Ad sales would plummet and income streams dry up. Ai everything is a stab wound to yourself imo.

  11. THIS_GUY_LIFTS on

    Andrew Yang is also a ding dong and a Musk sycophant. Neither party wants him so he’s making his own and cozying up with Musk. What is Musk **heavily** invested in again?

  12. There’s something ironic about less developed countries being more economically resilient to technological advancement. Wonder how many other civilizations out advanced themselves.

    I still can’t help but be skeptical. I think the inevitable loss of the Trade Wars will have a much more serious affect on the US economy.

  13. History is quite clear on what authoritarian regimes and oligarchs do to people it deems expendable. Anyone who thinks the ultra rich and powerful are going to share even a tiny bit of their wealth to keep society stable is incredibly naive.

  14. MightGuy8Gates on

    Man I shoulda just done something in healthcare, but ended up focusing on data science. This entire AI BS sucks. It was supposed to make life better, not make us all want to jump off a bridge.

    How is everybody ok with this. Governments are all a joke. Everything has somehow kept getting worse and worse post COVID.

  15. The_Frostweaver on

    Andrew yang pushing for universal basic income will be seen as someone who was correct, ahead of their time, and failed anyways.

  16. 40 million US jobs = 40 million people to keep busy and happy otherwise they will turn against the oligarchs.
    And with 1+ gun per capita in the US, you don’t want that huge well armed militia looking for target practice.

  17. National_Treat_4079 on

    Society will adapt. We will focus on being “makers” vs knowledge workers. Plumbers, food manufacturers, etc.

    Stuff like accounts payable, taxis, forkies, lawyers, accountants, etc are totally fucked

  18. Heartbreaker_EK9 on

    White collar jobs will be the first to suffer from AI. Blue collar jobs will still be around until automation comes after AI

  19. Tech bros are relatively divorced from the shop floor. I don’t doubt there’ll be savings made but 40Million is a headline grabber.

  20. The title would be some of the best news since the turn of the century, but the rich are sociopaths.

  21. Ok_Combination_294 on

    And year after these companies will need to hire 40m workers again to clean up mess made by AI. I guess soon we going to see more critical service outages, user data leaks, and other issues that will cost millions or even billions to these companies.

  22. EatsAlotOfBread on

    So why on Earth are we doing this at this point? This is the wealthy saying: “Starve. Disappear. Billions and billions of people, die for my comfort.” This is a deliberate attack on 99% of the planet. And nobody gives a crap?

  23. NeopolitanBonerfart on

    It’s only a question of the effectiveness of the technology. If the technology is capable of actually replacing jobs in practice, then it absolutely will. It’s not like corporations are going to keep paying people to do the same jobs if they can pay machines to do it for less.

  24. Many jobs could have been wiped out just by using common sense, working processes and if-else tier programming scripts. That was already long before AI became a thing.Â