With layoffs hitting industries across the global workforce, companies have landed on a common culprit: the rise in artificial intelligence. Numerous brands — including major tech corporations like Amazon — have pointed to AI as the reason for the most recent wave of job cuts. But some labor analysts claim that blaming AI is simply a way for these companies to avoid taking responsibility when they downsize.

What did the commentators say?

Even as companies have been “blaming the promise of productivity with artificial intelligence for their decisions,” there is “uneven evidence that the promised cost-savings from AI are actually worth what companies are putting into it,” said NBC News . This has left some people “questioning whether AI could be serving as a fig leaf for companies that

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