The AI Revolution Is Already Eliminating Jobs The automation wave isn’t coming someday. It’s already here. Amazon recently announced additional job cuts as robotics systems take over work once done by human employees. Warehouses that once employed hundreds of workers now operate with thousands of robots moving products through fully mechanized facilities. And the disruption isn’t limited to blue-collar labor. Jack Dorsey’s financial technology company Block recently announced plans to cut 40 percent of its workforce, citing artificial intelligence as the reason fewer employees are needed. For decades Americans were told automation would mainly replace factory labor. That assumption is collapsing. AI is now capable of performing tasks once considered secure white-collar work—data analysis, customer service, administrative operations, even certain…
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