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Clarification - these are management driven layoffs. AI doesn't drive anything, managers replace people with it.
well, not in the sense of "layoffs because AI can do those jobs", but still AI-driven in the sense of "AI did most of the actual grunt work of laying off those people".
If there is a repetitive and predictable activity that can be automated at this point it's layoffs. Announcements and internal talking points are already clearly LLM-generated.
"Did" is an interesting word. If somebody dug a ditch I wouldn't say the shovel "did" the grunt work.