Is AI Taking Over Jobs, Leading to Layoffs?

Will AI lead to major job cuts in corporate America?

Here’s what OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot says: “The short answer is: AI will almost certainly cause some layoffs, but it’s unlikely to eliminate most jobs outright. Instead, it’s more likely to transform the nature of many roles and reshape the workforce over time.”

A nuanced take, perhaps. But there’s evidence that a long-speculated seismic shake-up of the U.S. labor force driven by AI is starting to happen.

Amazon last week announced the elimination of 14,000 corporate jobs , representing about 4% of its total white-collar workforce. A company HR exec cited rapid developments coming in AI , saying “this generation of AI is the most transformative technology we’ve seen since the internet.” In the next few years, the e-commerce giant