AI might purge millions of workers in next jobs downturn, recession
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/06/ai-recession-jobs-unemployment
AI might purge millions of workers in next jobs downturn, recession
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/06/ai-recession-jobs-unemployment
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In the next job market downturn — whether it’s already starting or years away — there just might be a bloodbath for millions of workers whose jobs can be supplanted by artificial intelligence.
The big picture: In the last several economic cycles, recessions have been a period in which companies opportunistically ramped up their use of automation to lower their long-term need for workers.
If that pattern holds, AI-driven productivity gains and job losses are likely to be more severe in any bumpy period for the overall economy.
If last week’s soft jobs report and negative revisions turn out to be an early warning sign of a broader labor market downturn, this moment of rapid technological change could make it particularly painful
Fuck yeah les do it. Leave people jobless and unable to afford stuff. Let billionaires be the only people left on the planet where they can happily coexist with AI robots and the comeback of jungles and reversal of climate change.
I hope they are preparing to find AI customers too because people won’t have the money to afford sh*t.
Might? MIGHT!? Even if it doesn’t do anything, Companies will use the promise of AI or its threat to displace workers at will.
Are we going back to feudal times ?
With a king and billionaires as lords
Everyone else… is just in the way
LOL, ChatGPT 5 just came out, you know what the word out is on it?
Pathetic. The investors are pissed, and so are the CEO’s Sam Altman promised mass layoffs and mass AI replacement with Chatgpt 5. And it didn’t happen.
Not only that, but users are saying it’s even worse then ChatGPT 4.5.
For weeks, AI CEO’s have said there will be a mass loss of jobs for people, its time, for the AI revolution. As long as investors continued investing.
Did it happen?
No.
Those leaking to the media have been saying for weeks that increasing the scale of data centers isn’t making AI better, it’s just making their computation faster. But not more intelligent, why? Because they don’t know how people think.
So okay, they made Gen AI faster, they made responses faster. But they aren’t smarter. (Some are even saying that the new ChatGPT are having harder times with basic math and written questions.)
Bubbles about to burst, once investors realize AI has shit ROI.
And it’s 6 times as large as the .Com bubble of 2000’s.
Hilarious.
In the end, its just AI CEO’s boasting and lying about AI progress so Nvdia can continue selling mass amounts of GPU’s to prop up it’s stock prices which props up the next 7 index stocks. As soon as those stop, the entire thing starts to decay.
Can’t let that happen, but if the private sector doesn’t buy GPU’s at the rate it needs who then?
Oh, Stargate project in the USA.
EU starting their AI data centers.
Canada’s new AI minister.
The ban on GPU’s to China has been rescinded.
What a coincidence.
[https://sherwood.news/tech/after-jensen-huangs-mar-a-lago-visit-trump-halts-new-nvidia-h20-controls/](https://sherwood.news/tech/after-jensen-huangs-mar-a-lago-visit-trump-halts-new-nvidia-h20-controls/)
[https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/technology/nvidia-trump-ai-chips-china.html](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/technology/nvidia-trump-ai-chips-china.html)
[https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/america-s-ceos-come-to-the-white-house-bearing-gifts-and-flattery/ar-AA1K8RRG](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/america-s-ceos-come-to-the-white-house-bearing-gifts-and-flattery/ar-AA1K8RRG)
[https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/us/politics/trump-apple-investment.html](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/us/politics/trump-apple-investment.html)
Totally not a bubble about to burst. Those suckers in Nvdia stocks, better keep on buying.
Maybe. I think ai is some time away tbh. I’m working directly on this atm and I think the hype has run away from reality.. and definition.
Automation is a massive job killer
Off shoring a huge.
Ai WILL be the final nail in the coffin but imo…that’s not in the next year or so. Based on what I’m seeing I’m guessing we are 1 or 2 major revolutionary release away from it.
Maybe the ai can run all those empty cash registers at target
Then if the jobs are indeed taken by AI, we’ll probably eventually end up becoming livestock for billionaires >!to feed on after they’ve consumed everything else edible, to do manual labor without opposition, or to rape for their neverending desperate search for pleasure.!<
Machines keep getting better. If a cheaper system does the job well enough, why pay a person? Junior roles are getting squeezed as automation improves and the bar for hiring climbs. And with more people chasing degrees, competition at the bottom of the market only intensifies.