Companies continue to reduce jobs. To what extent should workers be worried that AI replaces them?

Technological companies that reduce jobs and are more involved in artificial intelligence are also disrupting.

Amazon’s chief executive officer Andy Jassy said last month that he expects the electronic commerce giant to narrow his workforce while employees “get efficiency gains by using AI in depth”.

At Salesforce, a software company that helps companies manage customer relations, director general Marc Benioff said last week that AI was already doing 30% of the business work.

Other technology chiefs have already struck. Earlier this year, Anthropic, a startup in AI, has made a big warning: the AI ​​could destroy more than half of all entry -level white collar jobs in the coming at five years.

Ready or not, AI reshapes, moves and creates new roles as an impact of technology on labor market undulations in several sectors. AI frenzy has fueled a lot of anxiety on the part of workers who fear that their job can be automated. About half of American workers are concerned about how AI can be used in the workplace in the future and few think that AI will lead to more long -term job possibilities, according to a PEW research center report.

Increased fear comes when large technological companies, such as Microsoft, Intel, Amazon and Meta, put pressure for more efficiency and promote their AI tools. Technological companies have deployed features fueled by AI that can generate code, analyze data, develop applications and help perform other tedious tasks.

“The AI ​​does not only take jobs. It really rewrites the book of rules on what work even looks like at the moment,” said Robert Lucido, principal director of strategic council at Magnit, a company based in Folsom, California, which helps the technology giants and other companies to manage entrepreneurs, the self -employed and other contingent workers.

Disrupation debated

The large amount of AI disruption will have on the job market is still being debated. The leaders of Openai, the manufacturer of the popular chatbot Chatgpt, rejected the prediction that a massive work of Blood Bath to come.

“I fully receive not only anxiety, but that there will be real pain here, in many cases,” said Sam Altman, Managing Director of Openai, in an interview with “Hard Fork”, the New York Times Podcast Tech. “In many other cases, however, I think we will see that the world is considerably underestimated. The world wants much more code than it can be written at the moment.”

While new economic policies, including those concerning prices, create more discomfort among companies, companies reintegrate costs while being more offset for which they hire.

“They try to find what we call purple unicorns rather than someone they can accelerate and train,” said Lucido.

Before the launch in 2022 of Chatgpt – a chatbot that can generate text, images, code and even more – Tech companies already used AI to organize publications, offensive content and virtual food assistants. But the popularity and the apparent superpowers of Chatgpt have triggered fierce competition between technological companies to publish even more powerful generative tools. They run to come, spending hundreds of billions of dollars on data centersInstallations that house computer equipment such as servers used to process the draft of the information necessary to train and maintain AI systems.

Economists and consultants have tried to understand how AI will affect engineers, lawyers, analysts and other professions. Some say that the change will not occur as soon as certain technological executives expect it.

“There have been many claims concerning the new technologies inappropriately in the past, and although such a trip has occurred in the past, it tends to take more time than technologists generally await it”, economists for the American work statistics office said in a February report.

AI can help develop, test and write code, provide financial advice and browse legal documents. The office, however, still provides that the use of software developers, financial advisers, aerospace engineers and lawyers will increase more quickly than the average for all professions from 2023 to 2033. Companies will always need software developers to create AI tools for companies or maintain AI systems.

Worker’s bots

Technological leaders have praised AI’s ability to write code. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said he thought IA could write code as an intermediate level engineer in 2025. And Microsoft Director Satya Nadella said that 30% of the company’s code is written by AI.

Other roles could grow more slowly or shrink due to AI. The Bureau of Labor Statistics expects the use of parajurists and legal assistants to increase more slowly than the average for all professions while roles for credit analysts, complaint experts and insurance assessors are decreasing.

McKinsey Global Institute, the commercial and economic research branch of the World Management Consulting Cabinet McKinsey & Co., predicted that in 2030, “activities that represent up to 30% of the hours currently worked in the American economy could be automated.”

The Institute expects the demand for scientific, technology, engineering and mathematics roles to increase in the United States and Europe, but shrink from customer service and the support of the office.

“Much of this work involves skills, which are routine, predictable and can be easily carried out by machines,” said Anu Madgavkar, partner of the McKinsey Global Institute.

Although the generative AI fuels the potential of automation To eliminate jobs, AI can also improve technical, creative, legal and commercial roles, depending on the report. There will be a lot of “noise and volatility” in the hiring of data, said Madgavkar, but what will separate “winners and losers” is the way people rethink their workflows and their jobs themselves.

Technological companies announced 74,716 discounts from January to May, up 35% compared to the same period of last year, according to a Challenger report, Gray & Christmas, a company that offers job search and career transition coaching.

Technological companies say they reduce jobs for various reasons.

Autodesk, which manufactures software used by architects, designers and engineers, has reduced 9% of its workforce, or 1,350 positions this year. The San Francisco Society has cited geopolitical and macroeconomic factors as well as its efforts to invest more in AI as reasons of the Cups, according to a regulatory deposit. Other companies such as Oakland Fintech Company Block, which reduced 8% of its workforce in March, told employees that the cuts were strategic not because they “replace people with AI”.

Diana Colella, executive vice-president, entertainment and media solutions at Autodesk, said it was frightening when people do not know what their work looks like in one year. However, she does not think that AI will replace humans or creativity but will rather act as assistant.

Companies are looking for more IA expertise. Autodesk noted that AI mentions in American job lists increased in 2025 and that some of the quickest growth roles include AI engineer, AI content creator and AI solutions architect. The company has teamed up with the GlobalData analysis company to examine nearly 3 million jobs over two years in sectors such as architecture, engineering and entertainment.

Workers have already adapted to technology. When the work of a seller of door-to-door encyclopedia was disrupted due to the online rise, these workers have pivoted to sell other products, said Colalla.

“Skills are always essential and important,” she said. “They could just be used for a different product or a different service.”