More than 10,000 jobs in the United States have been eliminated since the start of 2025 due to the introduction of AI into the workplace, according to figures cited in a Wall Street Journal report, as technology leaders at a Tuesday summit in New York City signaled that further restructuring is coming.
At the WSJ-convened conference, several tech leaders described a shift toward “reimagining workforces around skills and capabilities rather than mere head count,” the Journal reported. The discussions pointed to fewer middle managers and the possibility that technology and human resources departments could merge. Apoorv Agrawal, a partner at investment firm Altimeter Capital, said companies may soon face a choice between allocating money for engineers or buying more GPUs for AI.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has said publicly that jobs like customer service and support will be affected. Other roles identified as potentially endangered include software development and finance. The conference coverage did not address entry-level hiring, but separate warnings have focused on that segment.
Entry-Level Roles Under Pressure
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said earlier this week that AI has negatively impacted the job market for new college graduates. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei predicted that half of all entry-level office jobs may disappear within five years, pushing unemployment to 10 to 20 percent. Amodei framed the prediction as a warning to governments and companies to prepare, while his company markets its AI model to potential customers.
Those warnings arrive amid a difficult job market. The source material also raises questions about the near-term payoff of AI adoption, noting that the technology does not appear to be profitable and that many businesses that adopt AI end up abandoning those efforts. Companies that forgo hiring young people for entry-level roles may save money in the short term but risk failing to pass institutional knowledge to the next generation.
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