A new study directly contradicts the Dario Amodei and Jack Dorsey narrative: heavy AI adoption in the workplace correlates with more hiring, not fewer jobs. This is not a minor wrinkle. Dorsey used AI as the stated rationale for cutting 40% of Block's staff. The data says that logic is wrong.
The piece is worth reading in full because it does not just present a headline finding. It traces how the layoffs-from-AI story became consensus without solid empirical grounding, names the specific leaders who spread it, and shows how that narrative shaped real workforce decisions at real companies.
The question this raises is consequential: if AI adoption drives hiring, who is actually being laid off and why? The original article goes there. Read it.
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