Wanted to gather some stories about people who were fired because of AI. Not a generic "reorg", what they say in the press release, but honestly, because of AI. Proves?
Ask HN: Have you been fired because of AI?
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#2There are some stories here
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/s/ai-killed-my-job
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#3In my friend’s company they stopped all hiring. And ask everybody to use AI as much as possible. Maybe this is not “firing” but definitely no hiring.
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#4Do you mean fired or let go / made redundant?
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#5Re: Ask HN: Have you been fired because of AI?
#6See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46527950
Yes, I've heard about that. Any personal stories are very much appreciated.
Re: Ask HN: Have you been fired because of AI?
#7Do you mean fired or let go / made redundant?
Fired or let go. I understand that many positions have duplicate people in backup roles, so some will be redundant.
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#8Yes, i was fired from my role last week. We were buliding B2B SaaS in analytics space.
Though not by AI, it was due to the market conditions created by AI.
Customers are not willing to spend money on tools without proper AI story.
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#9Yes, but not the way you are thinking.
My prior job was for a group within a large company who were early into going "All in" on AI. They insisted that we move our products towards AI, that everyone use AI for all the things, etc. It did not go well. At all. All the management above us got fired. I've never before seen an entire executive team all fired at the same time. Then they fired us, too. The handful people who were left went back to their pre-AI product strategies, recovered, and are running just fine now.
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#10Love this because I call BS on most "We've let go 1,000 employees due to AI".
For example, I just saw Pinterest say they let go of a large part of their workforce because of AI, but in reality, their new CEO has BUTCHERED the app. It's practically unusable.
More and more companies seem to be screwing up, and instead of saying "we screwed up," it's a lot better to say "we've replaced these people with AI!"