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President Donald Trump has worked to accelerate America\u2019s development of AI rather than regulate it, and the result is not just an epidemic of deepfakes and hallucinations being passed off as legitimate research. A new report reveals that some of the nation\u2019s best-educated workers, who once were secure, are taking it on the chin.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAbout one third of the total personal wealth in the United States is held by the top 1 percent of households, while the bottom half of Americans holds less than 3 percent, according to Federal Reserve data,\u201d wrote The Washington Post’s Elizabeth Dwoskin and Shira Ovide wrote on Sunday. This data includes former economic winners who are now finding themselves on the wrong side of layoffs and hiring freezes \u2014 tech workers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe sense of precariousness among America\u2019s professional elite could be a preview of what\u2019s ahead for the rest of the country as AI spreads,\u201d the Post wrote. \u201cSilicon Valley techies are \u2018are guinea pigs for what tech dudes want to do to everyone,\u2019 said Anil Dash, a technology entrepreneur.\u201d<\/p>\n

They added, \u201cAt tech companies, leaders obsessed with winning the AI race have tasked their workforces of coders, lawyers and HR professionals with becoming the front line of that transformation. They\u2019re being measured by how quickly they can automate their own jobs while watching their colleagues get pushed out in successive waves of layoffs.\u201d<\/p>\n

The report continued, \u201cLayoffs.fyi, which tracks announced job cuts, counts more than 800,000 tech workers laid off since 2022, including large staff reductions in recent months at Meta, Microsoft, Oracle and Amazon.\u201d According to the Silicon Valley market research consultancy founder Oliver Raskin, whose company is called Signalcraft Insights, \u201cthere\u2019s this whole tranche of people who\u2019ve been quite used to being among the most upwardly mobile in society who are all of a sudden saying, \u2018Now I\u2019m the guy on the street.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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In the mid-to-late 20th century, autoworkers were the group most likely to fall into the category of \u201centered a specialized field on the premise that it was well paying and stable, only to have the rug pulled out from under them.\u201d Now that dubious distinction belongs to tech workers such as coders and engineers, whose positions are being outsourced to AI because the technology\u2019s speed and without regard to notable dips in quality.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s just a lot of uncertainty, a lot of fear, a lot of people feeling like, if they get let go from this job, they might not find another one,\u201d Anneke Buffone, a psychology PhD who Meta hired to help employees\u2019 well-being and safety but ultimately left in December, told the Post.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe described getting pushback from managers when she tried to explain that a particular AI tool was a waste of time,\u201d the Post reported. \u201cThe system had so many errors that she needed to redo its work.\u201d<\/p>\n

It continued, \u201cBut her bosses \u2018were like, \u2018No, keep using it more. It\u2019ll just get better,\u2019\u2019 she said. \u2018There\u2019s a feeling among management that when you voice that AI has all these problems, they don\u2019t want to hear it.\u201d AI, she said, makes \u201ceverything go so much faster. It creates this illusion that you can get all this stuff done. Much of the time you\u2019re just babysitting the AIs.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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