Close Menu
    Halfway Through 2025, AI Has Already Replaced 94,000 Tech Workers
    Futurology

    Halfway Through 2025, AI Has Already Replaced 94,000 Tech Workers

    Share.
    View 23 Comments

    23 Comments

    1. michael-lethal_ai on

      Further empirical data proving the significant job losses caused by AI.

    2. Anastariana on

      *Website hawking AI junk has breathless headline telling everyone how big and impactful AI is.*

      Gonna file this one under ‘conflict of interest’.

    3. Difficult-Implement9 on

      Who knew that eventually the real WMDs would be Weapons of Math Destruction?!?! 😂

    4. ale_93113 on

      AI mass unemployment will hopefully come soon…

      But these articles are prematurely hyping normal market movements

      If you look at the employment rate of other nations you see that there is no AI unemployment yet

      It will probably start to happen sometime in the next few years, but not now

    6. bikernaut on

      You could replace me with AI maybe but I bet it makes a big mistake within a year that I never would have.

    7. Tutac on

      I hope sometime in the future, people get back to farming, and having chickens, cows and such. 

      Just being self fullfilled and in real communities. Having real connections and worthwhile people in your life.

      This corporate cat and mouse play is just tiring for the mind, body and soul. The fullfillment is atrocious. And the constant fear of not being able to pay bills or eat is definitely not something one would associate with a first world country.

    8. tapdancinghellspawn on

      I used to argue with programmers that they will be replaced by AI. Some are still in denial.

    9. Techwield on

      I don’t understand the MASSIVE denial news like this always gets. “It’s not cause of AI, it’s cause of offshoring, or they just wanted to make cuts anyway and AI is a convenient excuse, everyone knows AI can’t replace jobs” etc.

      Bruh. Is it just wishful thinking? No one wants to acknowledge the possibility that AI is going to come for them too? Sad.

    10. Svoboda1 on

      The number would likely be way higher if the service providers didn’t charge exorbitant prices.

      Worked on a Google CCAI pilot and it was millions to implement a barebones environment and then tens/hundreds of thousands for each process/intent. Needless to say it was scrapped because it was just too costly but like I said, once pricing is reasonable, all hell will break loose.

    11. despicedchilli on

      No, it fucking hasn’t. They fired workers to lower wages and to hype up AI.
      They’re telling workers they can be replaced by AI so they can pay them less. It’s all bullshit.

    12. MedicOfTime on

      AI has not replaced a single human. Companies are simply cutting staff, supplying a copilot license, and leaving the remaining workforce with twice the work and half the pay. Good luck!

    13. hereforstories8 on

      I had to lay someone off in my department because that’s what some execs decided. They targeted that role to be replaced by AI. I told them great, but the responsibility for that deliverable has to shift to another department. Now another department is scrambling to hire someone who can wield an AI in a manner that will produce the deliverables from the position that was eliminated. Go figure…

    14. Least-Form5839 on

      The whiplash here is so crazy from ‘everyone’ needing to ‘learn to code’ (strip mall coding bootcamps etc lol)

      Then the very lucrative covid era job market for programmers/engineers/tech

      To it being one of the least in demand skills for most companies now, expecially at the junior level must really suck for a lot of people

    15. AirlockBob77 on

      I’m going to continue to downvote these blatantly false headlines.

      * ZERO proof that these roles are lost to AI
      * No indication of how much those companies have hired since

      I work in the field, AI is still in its infancy and at the moment, only augmenting certain roles. Headline is pure FUD. Dont fall for it.

    17. Bigtallanddopey on

      Watching the tennis at Wimbledon at the moment, AI has replaced the line judges.

      I am hoping that it also replaces football referees, as those guys are shit.

    18. gogoALLthegadgets on

      94k? For most of which is doing the same service as repetitive process automation (RPA) which has been around for way longer?

      94k ain’t shit. It’s less talented people using more advanced systems to make a lower quality product.

    20. heapsp on

      Copilot recently told most of our company that we had July 3rd off (observed), despite the holiday schedule saying nothing like that so i guess let companies find out the hard way.

    21. Izzy248 on

      History has shown time and time again that if they feel like they can get rid of most of the work force for cheaper alternatives, they absolutely will at the drop of a hat. Industrial revolution. Labor revolution. Outsourcing. Now AI.

      It’s just wild the lengths to which they will go to achieve not hiring real people. Microsoft got caught investing nearly half a billion in builder.ai just to avoid hiring real people to make it’s stuff going forward.

    22. Marsman121 on

      I’m still not convinced this is anything other than just CEOs and other management types tossing more kindling onto the fire to make their stock balloons rise just a little higher. Companies these days gladly burn future viability for present share value since share price is no longer linked to the actual health or profitability of the company, only the chance of it going up more in the future. CEO doesn’t care if the company crashes and burns, they simply jump out with their golden parachute into another CEO position to repeat the process.

      Thanks to consolidation, shitty companies are all but immune to market forces. Small startup threatens your business? Buy or lobby it out of existence and either nuke or enshitify the product. With massive mega corps pretending there is competition in the market by keeping subsidiary companies under its umbrella, it doesn’t matter if customers have a choice between A, B, or C when you own the companies making the three products.

      AI is the internet bubble all over again. You have random, pointless companies popping up out of nowhere making wild claims about their “revolutionary AI product” in the hopes that some vulture capitalists throw money at them. I have yet to see an AI product that offers some meaningful usefulness outside of highly specialized ones designed for a specific purpose (like AlphaFold). AI scams are everywhere. Every pure AI product that has launched has been pure garbage designed to either get investments and bail, or get as many fools to preorder as possible before dumping some half-assed “product” on them and bouncing with their money.

      CEOs and tech journalists are always talking about AI either as an economic doomsday for humans, or literal “god in the machine” religious bullshit. Considering how AI exists solely by burning massive amounts of capital (as no AI company is actually profitable), CEOs have a financial interest in telling wild stories to keep the money flowing in. I have yet to see a tech “journalist” actually push back against some of these claims, often taking whatever these financially invested people claim as if it were the word of god.

    23. Cherryyardf on

      I believe that this is just the start of it. I had almost zero knowledge in code until recently and had to rely on other people (contractors or similar) for projects. But since using Gemini Pro i didnt have a need for them at all. Saved me a lot and I actually get what I want, either on the first try, or atleast without having to wait for them to start working again for an answer.