AI-Driven Job Shifts and Economic Impacts
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As layoffs increase, training AI models has become a lucrative side hustle, with humans performing tasks like data labeling and model fine-tuning to help develop autonomous systems, potentially at the cost of future jobs, while some workers see it as a way to stay relevant in an increasingly automated world.
- Layoffs are leading to a new human gig economy for AI Axios
- AI Really is Coming For the Jobs - WSJ The Wall Street Journal
- "Layoff boomerangs" suggest replacing workers with AI isn't sticking Axios
- Since ChatGPT launched, job openings are down 30% while the stock market is up 70%. One economist says the true culprit isn’t AI, but monetary policy Fortune
- A ‘jobless profit boom’ has cemented a permanent loss in payrolls as AI displaces labor at a faster rate, strategist says Yahoo Finance
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