{"id":132140,"date":"2025-11-10T13:01:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T13:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/132140\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T13:01:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T13:01:07","slug":"why-ai-layoffs-like-amazon-will-backfire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/132140\/","title":{"rendered":"Why AI Layoffs Like Amazon Will Backfire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Right now there seem to be only two types of business headlines: Those dedicated to the eye-popping investments and valuations of the ever-expanding AI boom, and those chronicling a stream of layoff announcements. Strikingly, you\u2019ll often see the same company names appearing in both.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">It makes sense, I suppose. Employers in thrall to the possibilities of this powerful new technology are betting it will drive productivity \u2014 meaning fewer humans are needed. (And the post-layoff stock bump doesn\u2019t hurt.) But ultimately, many of these cuts will likely prove unwise. In fact, they may undermine the very thing companies are so focused on: the ability to use AI to its fullest potential. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Right now there seem to be only two types of business headlines: Those dedicated to the eye-popping investments&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[77025,220,1671,218,219,22350,22789,61,2568,60,150,15863,1672,21866,80,11510],"class_list":{"0":"post-132140","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-accenture-plc-cl-a","9":"tag-ai","10":"tag-amazon-com-inc","11":"tag-artificial-intelligence","12":"tag-artificialintelligence","13":"tag-executives","14":"tag-future-of-work","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-india","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-jobs","19":"tag-massachusetts","20":"tag-microsoft-corp","21":"tag-software-company","22":"tag-technology","23":"tag-view"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}