AI Costs More Than The People It Replaced
The technology that was supposed to make human labour obsolete is, at this moment, more expensive than the humans it was meant to replace.
Secretaries and admins grapple with a growing threat from AI | AP News
Employment data offers a grim outlook for secretaries and administrative assistants in the age of artificial intelligence, but workers in the women-dominated occupation say the numbers don’t tell the whole story. Administrative professionals say adapting is a key part of their day-to-day. By tasking AI with the more repetitive items and freeing up time for more strategic work, some say they are using these tools as a launchpad for career growth. But according to a Brookings Institution report they may be more exposed to AI-induced displacement than other professionals.
If you want a promotion at Accenture, CEO says you've got to use AI | Fortune
“Today, AI at Accenture is how we do work,” Julie Sweet said in a recent podcast episode.
AI Brain Fry, Workslop and the Ironies of Automation
Workers required to monitor AI agents closely reported fourteen percent more mental effort, twelve percent more mental fatigue, and nineteen percent greater information overload than those whose AI engagement was less demanding.
The great AI displacement is here. Women's jobs are most at risk
It’s time to put risks to women’s workplace participation due to AI-related job displacement firmly on the agenda.
Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence \ Anthropic
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
The AI Jobs Apocalypse Is Starting to Feel Real
Recent layoffs at Jack Dorsey's Block continued to raise fears of mass jobs destruction driven by AI models.
Worried AI means you won't get a job when you graduate? Here's what the research says
The head of the International Monetary Fund, Kristalina Georgieva, has warned young people will suffer the most as an AI "tsunami" wipes out many entry-level roles in coming years.
New Study Tracks How Businesses Quietly Replaced Freelancers With AI Tools - Slashdot
A new study [PDF] from Ramp's economics lab has found that businesses are steadily replacing freelance workers hired through platforms like Upwork and Fiverr with AI tools from OpenAI and Anthropic, and the substitution is happening at a fraction of the cost.
The paper, authored by Ryan Stevens, R...
Researchers Studied What Happens When Workplaces Seriously Embrace AI, and the Results May Make You Nervous
Introducing AI in the workplace can create a vicious cycle that leaves employees overburdened and burned out.
Andrew Yang Warns AI Will Displace Millions of White-Collar Workers Within 18 Months - Slashdot
Andrew Yang, the former presidential candidate and longtime Universal Basic Income advocate, published a blog post this week warning that AI is about to displace millions of white-collar workers in the U.S. over the next 12 to 18 months, a wave he has taken to calling "the Fuckening."
Yang cited a...
Workers Are Afraid AI Will Take Their Jobs. They’re Missing the Bigger Danger. - WSJ
It isn’t whether artificial intelligence is going to replace them. It’s who will control the knowledge that companies capture from their employees.
There's a New Term for Workers Freaking Out Over Being Replaced by AI
No one's mental health improves when they are told constantly that they are about to lose their job.There isn’t a ton of evidence to suggest that the introduction of AI has led to significant job losses, yet. But it has led to a significant amount of …
Why your AI pilot will fail in production (and how to fix it)
While 91% of organizations plan to increase AI investment this year, the actual return on that capital is stalling.
According to Deloitte’s 2025 survey, only 6% of organizations see a return on investment in under a year. Even worse, new data from the Voice of the Enterprise reveals that 46% of AI projects are scrapped between proof-of-concept and broad adoption.
Why AI Adoption Stalls, According to Industry Data
About eight in ten employees had strong concern about at least one AI angst item. For example, 65% of people agreed that they “worry about being replaced by someone who knows how to use AI better than I do,” 61% worry “AI might make others think I don’t bring unique value,” 60% worry “that using AI to help with my work will make colleagues question my personal competency,” 54% feel AI is impacting the way they connect with others at work, and 44% feel it’s “making them dumber.” One in three employees had an average score of four or greater across the AI angst composite score.
Overall, we found that approximately 86% of people felt AI will make work at least a little better with 14% feeling AI will have a neutral or negative impact on the experience of work.
The Jevons Paradox for Intelligence
Fears of AI-induced job loss could not be more wrong
IBM Plans to Triple Entry-Level Hiring in the US in 2026 - Bloomberg
AI Is Coming for Entry-Level Jobs—What Higher Ed Must Do Now (Feb 10, 2026 AI Update)
This week’s update focuses on specific job losses that can be traced to AI, billionaires’ fears over their own children being able to find work, and overall structural trends pointing to more AI-induced unemployment.
Jobs report set to show whether hiring slowdown continued in 2026 - ABC News
Wednesday's jobs report will provide a key barometer of the U.S. economy as policymakers grapple with a combination of elevated inflation and sluggish hiring.
Worried AI means you won’t get a job when you graduate? Here’s what the research says
All students, no matter how familiar they are with AI, can also concentrate on developing general competencies that can apply across any industry. US researchers have pinpointed six key “durable skills” for the AI age:
effective communication, to engage with others successfully
good adaptability, to respond to workplace, industry and broader social changes
strong emotional intelligence, to help everyone thrive in a workplace
high-quality creativity, to work with AI in innovative ways
sound leadership, to help navigate the challenges that AI creates
robust critical thinking, to deal with AI-related problems.
So, look for opportunities to foster these skills in and out of class. This could include engaging in teamwork, joining a club or society, doing voluntary work, or getting paid work experience.
Don’t forget ethics
Poets&Quants | MBA Students Want AI In The Core – And Many Say Their Programs Aren’t Delivering
Home Main Menu GMAT Master Most Recent This Week’s Most Viewed European MBAs Special Reports MBA Students Want AI In The Core – And Many Say Their Programs Aren’t Delivering by: Marc Ethier on February 02, 2026 | 564 Views
Most MBA students say technology skills should be central to their business education. Far fewer believe their programs are doing a good job teaching them.
That disconnect shows up in a new national survey conducted on behalf of Arkansas State University, which asked 181 MBA students across the U.S. how well their programs are keeping up with rapid changes in technology.
Ninety two percent of respondents said automation, data strategy, and digital technology should be integrated into the core MBA curriculum. Seventy eight percent said AI literacy should be a required graduation skill rather than an elective.
Only 41% said their program teaches emerging skills “very well.”
HOW STUDENTS SEE THEIR PROGRAMS Asked to describe their MBA programs overall, just 35% of students called them innovative. Forty percent described their programs as traditional, while more than 10% said their curriculum felt outdated.
AI Use at Work Has Increased, Gallup Poll Finds
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Associated Press:
American workers adopted artificial intelligence into their work lives at a remarkable pace over the past few years, according to a new poll. Some 12% of employed adults say they use AI daily in their job, according to a Gallup W...
Citigroup Mandates AI Training For 175,000 Employees To Help Them 'Reinvent Themselves'
Citigroup has rolled out mandatory AI training for all 175,000 of its employees across 80 locations worldwide, a sweeping initiative that CEO Jane Fraser describes as helping workers "reinvent themselves" before the technology permanently alters what they do for a living.
The $205 billion bank sen...
AI adoption at work flatlined in Q4, says Gallup
: Points to a use-case problem
CEOs Say AI Is Making Work More Efficient. Employees Tell a Different Story. - WSJ
The biggest risk isn’t that AI “doesn’t work”—it’s that leadership measures potential while employees live the implementation, and that gap can turn a promising tool into a credibility crisis where “productivity gains” quietly become redistributed labor: more checking, more cleanup, and more pressure—without the time savings anyone promised.