To: Amazon, Salesforce and other big corporate employers
Tell Amazon, Salesforce and other corporations to stop using AI as a reason to cut jobs
Artificial intelligence tech is destroying the job market! Big corporations are using AI as a reason to lay people off, even if there’s little evidence that AI capabilities are the actual reason for cutting jobs.
Amazon, Salesforce, and other companies said they were laying off thousands of workers over the last year because of AI. Executives said AI could do the jobs of people being fired.
Economists and tech experts say this reasoning was really a cover — that these companies were “AI-washing” their layoffs to avoid financial and political backlash if they gave the real reasons (like tariffs and over-hiring).
A recent bombshell Fortune report reveals that IBM is tripling its entry-level hiring as the company sees limits on what AI can do and the level at which it can replace humans on the job. “We are tripling our entry-level hiring, and yes, that is for software developers and all these jobs we’re being told AI can do,” said one IBM executive.
Why is this important?
The richest companies and people in America are pushing AI because a lot of their money is on the line. They’re telling the public that algorithms, chatbots, and automation will replace workers at historic levels in the next few years.
THIS IS A THREAT TO WORKING PEOPLE. The unemployment rate for college grads is 5.6%, the highest level in more than a decade outside of the COVID-19 pandemic. Workers are being told in the thousands that they’re being replaced by AI.
Companies implementing AI are inundating people with “workslop.” A recent report in the Harvard Business Review catalogues how subpar work output from AI (“workslop”) is actually destroying productivity.
Companies need to stop lying to their workers about AI. Corporate executives need to stop making jobs harder for people because of AI, and making baseless claims about AI.
Sign the petition: Stop using AI as a pretext for cutting jobs and laying people off! Human workers cannot be replaced by AI.