The Growing Anxiety Over AI, Jobs and the Future

The drumbeat of negative reactions to A.I. is providing a contrast to the full-steam-ahead approach by many companies.

Layoffs linked to A.I. are still happening, and they’re often big. Meta’s offices will be mostly empty on Wednesday as it cuts 8,000 workers around the world, part of its effort to refocus on its A.I. operations. (Another 7,000 are being reassigned to new initiatives tied to the technology.) From The Times:

Ahead of the layoffs, hundreds of employees in New York planned to gather for drinks on Tuesday to “commiserate or celebrate, pick your poison,” according to a copy of an invitation seen by The New York Times. The title of the event: “Never a dull moment 🫡.”

That’s adding to the more than 111,000 tech-sector employees laid off so far this year, according to Layoffs.fyi.

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Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/business/dealbook/ai-jobs-layoffs-meta.html