After years of rhetoric about how the rise of artificial intelligence would support workers rather than replace them, some tech leaders are getting much more direct about negative impacts that AI will have on the workforce.
“AI is coming for your jobs. Heck, it’s coming for my job too,” Fiverr CEO Micha Kaufman wrote in an April memo to employees. “I hear the conversation around the office. I hear developers ask each other, ‘Guys, are we going to have a job in two years?’” Kaufman tells Forbes now. “I felt like this needed validation from me—that they aren’t imagining stuff.”
In the age of AI, only exceptional employees have an edge.
“We’re going from mass hiring to precision hiring,” said Stanford researcher Ruyu Chen, adding that companies are starting to focus more on employing experts in their fields.
Read more about how the rise of generative AI is impacting hiring and layoff decisions—and what that means for the future—in Richard Nieva’s latest story here. And keep scrolling for more great journalism you can only get from the Forbes newsroom. |
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