The most recent jobs numbers paint a pretty grim picture of the labor market and the apparent havoc AI is wreaking on it. After warnings about unemployment among recent grads earlier this year, the newest report suggests that AI’s impact is reaching a broader group of workers. There were over 150,000 layoffs in October, which makes it the worst October for layoffs in over two decades, and about 50,000 of those have been attributed to AI. Overall, 2025 has seen more job cuts than any year since 2020.

It’s too soon to tell how much AI is really to blame for these job losses, even if companies are blaming AI in public statements. A team of researchers from the Yale Budget Lab and Brookings has argued that the broader labor market isn’t being disrupted any more by AI than it was by the intern

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