{"id":1133,"date":"2025-07-11T09:16:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T09:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/1133\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T09:16:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T09:16:04","slug":"ai-is-already-taking-jobs-from-the-people-who-helped-make-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/1133\/","title":{"rendered":"AI is already taking jobs, from the people who helped make it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Updated Jul 11, 2025 \u2013 4.15pm, first published at 2.11pm<\/p>\n<p>Gift this article<\/p>\n<p class=\"-d6475070fa5e1d14-title\" data-testid=\"Modal-title\">Subscribe to gift this article<\/p>\n<p class=\"-d6475070fa5e1d14-giftDescription -d6475070fa5e1d14-noMaxWidth\" data-testid=\"Modal-description\">Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.<\/p>\n<p><a data-testid=\"Modal-subscribe-button\" href=\"https:\/\/subscribe.afr.com\/?promote_channel=HI_AGFT_GNL_GIFTCTA&amp;utm_source=ArticleGifting&amp;utm_medium=HouseInventory&amp;utm_campaign=General&amp;utm_content=GiftCTA\" class=\"-d6475070fa5e1d14-subscribeButton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe now<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"-d6475070fa5e1d14-subscribeSubtext\">Already a subscriber? Login<\/p>\n<p>Zoe Ogden had worked for IBM for 26 years, most recently in the human resources team where she scouted for junior talent, onboarded staff, and ran training and development workshops. In December, many of these tasks were taken from her \u2013 and given to a chatbot.<\/p>\n<p>Ogden was one of 8000 IBM workers whose positions were made redundant globally, and one of 200 HR roles, as the tech giant updated its virtual assistant AskHR with agentic AI. It allowed the company to slash 40 per cent of the costs of career chats, training schedules, promotion tracking and other basic HR tasks.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated Jul 11, 2025 \u2013 4.15pm, first published at 2.11pm Gift this article Subscribe to gift this article&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[28,134],"class_list":{"0":"post-1133","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-jobs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}