<p>"Chief information and technology officers surveyed for BI indicated that on average they expect a net 3% of their workforce to be cut, according to a report published Thursday.</p><p>[...]</p><p>Nearly a quarter of the 93 respondents predict a steeper decline of between 5% and 10% of total headcount."</p><p><a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/wall-street-job-losses-may-071500049.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="finance.yahoo.com/news/wall-street-job-losses-may-071500049.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">finance.yahoo.com/news/wall-st</span><span class="invisible">reet-job-losses-may-071500049.html</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#labor</a> <a href="/tags/workersrights/" rel="tag">#WorkersRights</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a></p>
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<p>"As technologists, we are workers first. We cannot individually stop the machine of capitalism from exploiting our labor, and, while this tide will shift, many of us are too romanced by the technofuturist dream of [Large Language Models] — despite widespread, multidisciplinary criticism of the technology and disastrous consequences in its application so far — to easily reconsider our adoption of it."</p><p><a href="https://henry.codes/writing/economics-and-labor-rights-in-ai-skepticism/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="henry.codes/writing/economics-and-labor-rights-in-ai-skepticism/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">henry.codes/writing/economics-</span><span class="invisible">and-labor-rights-in-ai-skepticism/</span></a></p><p>via <span class="h-card"><a href="https://front-end.social/@henry" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>henry</span></a></span></p><p><a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/workers/" rel="tag">#workers</a> <a href="/tags/workersrights/" rel="tag">#WorkersRights</a> <a href="/tags/essay/" rel="tag">#essay</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/llms/" rel="tag">#LLMs</a></p>
<p>"CEO Marc Benioff said Salesforce, San Francisco’s largest private employer, does not plan to hire engineers this year because of the success of AI agents created and used by the company."</p><p><a href="https://sfstandard.com/2025/02/27/salesforce-marcbenioff-layoffs-tech-agents/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="sfstandard.com/2025/02/27/salesforce-marcbenioff-layoffs-tech-agents/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">sfstandard.com/2025/02/27/sale</span><span class="invisible">sforce-marcbenioff-layoffs-tech-agents/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/salesforce/" rel="tag">#salesforce</a> <a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#labor</a> <a href="/tags/workersrights/" rel="tag">#WorkersRights</a></p>
<p>"Being pro-labor and pro-AI is incompatible, as AI devalues the work that actual workers do, making them less valuable to the market and easier to underpay going forward."</p><p><a href="https://www.vulture.com/article/ghibli-portrait-chatgpt-ai.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.vulture.com/article/ghibli-portrait-chatgpt-ai.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.vulture.com/article/ghibli</span><span class="invisible">-portrait-chatgpt-ai.html</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#labor</a> <a href="/tags/workersrights/" rel="tag">#WorkersRights</a> <a href="/tags/ghibli/" rel="tag">#ghibli</a> <a href="/tags/studioghibli/" rel="tag">#StudioGhibli</a></p>
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<p>RE: <a href="https://hachyderm.io/@jzb/115904367311777942" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="hachyderm.io/@jzb/115904367311777942"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hachyderm.io/@jzb/115904367311</span><span class="invisible">777942</span></a></p><p>Interesting perspective!</p><p>"Imagine if AI/LLM tools were not shareholder catnip, but a grassroots movement of tooling that workers were sharing with each other to work less.</p><p>[...]</p><p>CEOs would be screaming bloody murder. There’d be an overnight industry in AI-detection tools and immediate bans on AI in the workplace."</p><p><a href="/tags/workers/" rel="tag">#workers</a> <a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#labor</a> <a href="/tags/workersrights/" rel="tag">#WorkersRights</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a></p>
<p>"These multinationals are coming to rule and dominate here. It’s a very unfortunate supply chain, and my call today as data labelers is to build up on this—as we are fighting for labor rights, we are also fighting for the environment […] we are fighting big companies."</p><p><a href="https://www.404media.co/ai-is-african-intelligence-the-workers-who-train-ai-are-fighting-back/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.404media.co/ai-is-african-intelligence-the-workers-who-train-ai-are-fighting-back/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.404media.co/ai-is-african-</span><span class="invisible">intelligence-the-workers-who-train-ai-are-fighting-back/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/llms/" rel="tag">#LLMs</a> <a href="/tags/bigtech/" rel="tag">#BigTech</a> <a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#labor</a> <a href="/tags/workersrights/" rel="tag">#WorkersRights</a></p>
<p>30,000 people laid off to free up "estimated $156 billion in capital spending" for AI.</p><p>Brutal.</p><p><a href="https://thenextweb.com/news/oracle-layoffs-march-2026" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="thenextweb.com/news/oracle-layoffs-march-2026"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thenextweb.com/news/oracle-lay</span><span class="invisible">offs-march-2026</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/oracle/" rel="tag">#oracle</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/workersrights/" rel="tag">#WorkersRights</a> <a href="/tags/labot/" rel="tag">#labot</a></p>