Report Says Thousands Have Lost Jobs to AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) is growing into a serious challenge for workers in the U.S. employment landscape. According to a recent report from Challenger, Gray & Christmas, the growing use of generative AI by private companies has triggered over 10,000 redundancies since the start of the year. The outplacement consultancy ranks AI among the top five causes of layoffs this year. The latest labor statistics reveal that employers added just 73,000 roles in July—far below what analysts had expected. For the first seven months of the year, private-sector job cuts crossed 806,000, marking the highest total in that period since 2020,…