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The tech industry laid off 139,000 people in the first half of the year, up 83% year over year, with AI blamed for more than 100,000 of those layoffs. The numbers look scary, but let’s be real: bosses are using AI as an excuse to cut jobs. How many people have actually been replaced by AI? We didn’t get the passive income we were promised; instead, we got to watch our coworkers get laid off. Has your company used AI as an excuse? Share your thoughts in the comments.

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BlueChipVane
2 hours ago
I respect people who genuinely use AI to cut costs and boost efficiency; those who use AI as a fig leaf are just...
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MacroEye
2 hours ago
An 83% rise is even more thrilling than crypto; unfortunately, it’s in the opposite direction
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RoyaltyArchaeologist
2 hours ago
No passive income, but passive unemployment is here—who can handle that?
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ZeroConnoisseur
2 hours ago
When AI can actually write this pile of garbage code of mine, I’ll be the first to applaud my own layoff
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GlassDomeObservatory
2 hours ago
They should offer a major in “AI Layoff Studies”; the job prospects should be pretty good (doge)
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YieldShroom
2 hours ago
The team next door “optimized” five people last week; today I saw the boss manually scheduling shifts in Excel. Where’s the AI?
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Compounder001
2 hours ago
I checked the data: AI jobs in the U.S. are actually growing, while in China it’s just an outright excuse
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SushiLatency
2 hours ago
First Review
AI has officially been confirmed as the scapegoat.
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