Microsoft is offering buyouts to around 60k employees
businessinsider.com
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Times are changing quickly, mainly due to the rapid progress of AI, and those companies which fail to adapt are going to die. Unfortunately, that is going to mean heavier and heavier layoffs.
Workforce displacement due to AI is an issue we'll have to address at a societal level, through public policy. The free market is incapable of fixing this --- at least not without causing immense pain to millions and millions of people.