41% of companies worldwide plan to reduce workforces by 2030 due to AI

Posted by everybodyknows on Wednesday January 08, 2025 @01:47PM
from the cnn.com dept.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/08/business/ai-job-losses-by-2030-intl/index.html

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Re:41% of companies worldwide plan to reduce workforces by 2... by Daishiman on Wednesday January 08, 2025 @04:07PM (#42638450)

If anything the proof in the pudding that executives have no idea of what's going on outside of the narrow scope they work in.

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Re:41% of companies worldwide plan to reduce workforces by 2... by fendy3002 on Wednesday January 08, 2025 @02:04PM (#42637360)

I'm under impression that current AI cannot handle 10% of edge cases that human can. Worse AI feels like to hallucinate so it's even harder to identify whether the edge cases happen.

How do companies plan to work around or mitigate that? Or they're betting on them being acceptable soon?

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Re:41% of companies worldwide plan to reduce workforces by 2... by rar00 on Wednesday January 08, 2025 @04:42PM (#42638746)

with human supervisors is the plan. Instead of X workers, they now have X agents + Y<<X supervisors to unblock (and collect additional data for) agents

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Re:41% of companies worldwide plan to reduce workforces by 2... by taylodl on Wednesday January 08, 2025 @02:00PM (#42637320)

And? Probably even more companies are going to reduce workforces due to continuing automation.

There was an article just today in the new section of HN talking about how the labor market is contracting and the fact there are fewer and fewer people to do jobs now that immigration is tightening, and the working population is continuing to age-out. Companies are simply going to have to make do with less. AI and automation may allow them to do that. The gold mine is going to be in agricultural robots.

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