Gautam Mukunda / Bloomberg:
A survey of 1,000 hiring managers: 59% say they emphasize the role of AI in layoffs or hiring freezes “because it works better”; only 9% say AI has completely replaced roles— Whatever you think about the arrival of artificial intelligence in your job, it has already mastered one business skill: monopolizing credit.
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