This is a silly story. If any company claimed to be conducting “AI layoffs”, they were using AI as a smokescreen to lay off employees for other reasons. AI is not remotely near the level of sophistication that would allow companies to replace humans with AI on a mass scale. Most business news stories suggest that companies are getting rid of deadweight and Woke disaster hires and calling it AI layoffs. Especially in the entertainment industry.
You may consider it silly, but it has been a reality for a lot of people already. As I said my neighbors who were laid off are both extremely competent and skilled and found better jobs almost immediately. What is silly are the managers of these companies who fell for the AI hype and got rid of skilled and experienced employees who actually could do the job and tried to replace them with new hires who supposedly could use AI to do what the experienced employees were doing. At this point companies are running into difficulties when managers believe that skill and experience can be replaced with people with less qualifications using AI apps.