{"id":360164,"date":"2026-03-23T01:18:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T01:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/360164\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T01:18:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T01:18:13","slug":"adrian-weckler-rapid-evolution-of-ai-means-layoffs-are-no-longer-a-last-resort-theyre-a-business-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/360164\/","title":{"rendered":"Adrian Weckler: Rapid evolution of AI means layoffs are no longer a last resort \u2014 they\u2019re a business plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nMounting job cuts can\u2019t be confused with a lack of work or that layoff-creating firms are struggling financially. Instead companies increasingly feel under pressure to use more AI to automate task\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Between 5,000 and 10,000 monthly US layoffs are now AI-related, a Goldman Sachs report found. Photo: Stock image\/Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/86cd03e1-d2d6-4592-8b18-09deb9ddfdeb.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Between 5,000 and 10,000 monthly US layoffs are now AI-related, a Goldman Sachs report found. Photo: Stock image\/Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">AI may finally, really be coming for our jobs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Meta\u2019s next wave of sweeping job cuts is reportedly linked to AI. It follows 20,000 AI-related cuts at HSBC, 16,000 at Amazon, around 5,000 at HP and many, many more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mounting job cuts can\u2019t be confused with a lack of work or that layoff-creating firms are struggling financially.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[8819,72,605,61,60,19247],"class_list":{"0":"post-360164","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-adrian-weckler","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-elon-musk","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-x-formerly-twitter"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360164","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=360164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}