It’s not a particularly good time to be a (human) worker in America. Tens of thousands of people have been laid off over the past several days, and the general outlook for job-seekers appears grim , to say the least. This week, Amazon announced plans to neutralize some 14,000 positions, while Meta said it would purge several hundred people from various offices throughout California and Washington state . Chegg, the online learning platform, announced plans to reduce its workforce by a whopping 45 percent on Monday. Several other large American companies—including FedEx, Paramount, General Motors, Target, and UPS—similarly announced plans to eliminate jobs.

The consensus seems to be that this sudden employment blood bath may just be the birthing pangs of the new AI age—a time in

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