The one way AI is indirectly responsible at Big Tech is that AI is *taking away* resources from other divisions. They are building large AI platforms which is a huge investment. It comes at the cost of shutting down divisions that were considered low priority. I know Google did this last year and the year before. Sundar Pichai himself wrote about it. It’s not that AI is replacing the jobs gone. Those jobs are gone to *fund* AI.
Just wait until all the ‘little’ AIs start joining together...............