More than half of leaders who laid off workers due to AI admit to screwing up

Fearful of being left behind, employers have leaned heavily into AI over the past year. 

Part of that approach has been a zeal for replacing humans with AI. Earlier this month, Tobi Lutke, CEO of Shopify, sent a memo to employees informing them new workers would not be hired unless teams could “demonstrate why they cannot get what they want done using AI.” In a similar memo, Fiverr CEO Micha Kaufman warned employees that AI would be “coming for” them if they did not become “exceptional.” READ MORE