AI Is Taking Its Toll On Jobs - What To Know

Epoch Times ^ | 11/03/2025 | Panos Mourdoukoutas

[dpetty121263]

Guess there is always starvation...can’t work so no eats.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“Salesforce...replaced 4,000 customer support workers with AI agents.”

I HATE any sort of automated phone “agent.” It usually takes me 4 or 5 minutes to get past the thoroughly useless bot to a (sometimes) helpful human. What a ridiculous time suck.

I have NEVER gotten anything remotely useful from a phone AI agent / bot.

[libh8er]

AI is taking a toll on jobs not by replacing workers with itself, but by diverting resources to a company named nVidia.

[SeekAndFind]

Not sure if AI has anything to do with it but...

Tens of thousands of layoffs have been announced across major sectors in late October 2025, with UPS, Amazon, Intel and Nestlé leading the cuts. Over 112,000 tech jobs alone have been eliminated this year, and broader corporate downsizing is accelerating.

Just during October alone, UPS announced 48,000 job cuts, Amazon 14,000, Intel 24,000, Nestle 16,000, Accenture 11,000, Novo Nordisk 9,000, Applied Materials 1,444, Target 1,000, Charter Telecom 1,200 and CBS/Paramount 1,000.

These are notable corporations cutting staff, but other major companies like JPMorgan Chase have implemented a hiring freeze across multiple divisions in late 2025, driven by its aggressive deployment of artificial intelligence and cost discipline. Managers have been instructed to avoid hiring unless absolutely necessary.

[SaxxonWoods]

All of this screams to me, “Work for yourself!”

[dagunk]

wanna keep your business going?
Have a human answering the phone instead of a computer.
I threw contracts to providers simply because a human answered the phone. All it takes is one trip through “automated phone hell” to make up the price difference for parts.

[Ronaldus Magnus III]

customer support

In the old days of touchtone phones, I would just press 0 to find a human.

An online AI chat is very common these days. Instead of 0, I type in HUMAN. Sometimes it takes typing human 2 or 3 times.

I have also run into AI while using the telephone customer service. No matter what the "choices" from the AI are, I just repeat HUMAN until they transfer to a living, breathing person.

PS - I wonder if some young entrepreneur will develop an AI customer service with a thick East Indian accent.

[minnesota_bound]

I recently read that 1/3rd of hollywood jobs have disappeared. 48,000 gone. Most I suspect due to the terrible scold movies and tv shows they make but AI is replacing background players and set design builders etc.
The writing from AI is a rehash of the bad storylines already made.

[Lazamataz]

We are so screwed.

[bobcat62]

AI = affordable Indians & outsourcing

[MMusson]

The MAJORITY of layoffs are still due to the same issue: BAD MANAGEMENT.

Amazon, FEDEX and UPS all overstaffed during the lockdowns. The Auto companies and Power Companies made terrible Billion-dollar bets on Green Technology that is worthless.

[RoosterRedux]

Fear is effortless. You just surrender to it. Courage takes faith—faith in God, faith in reason, faith in the idea that progress and truth exist beyond our own anxieties.

Fear shrinks the world. Faith and critical thought expand it.

[Sirius Lee]

“What To Know”. Et tu, Epoch Times? Et tu?

[RoosterRedux]

Yes. Fixing problems created by bad management and using AI to identify better ways of running operations and eliminating inefficiencies, waste, and useless jobs.

Here's an example of what Palantir is doing with its clients using AI:

• Swiss Re: After installing Palantir's software, they cut reporting time by up to 80%, freed about 30% of underwriters’ time, boosted data-team output by 50%, and earned back the entire cost of the system in 7 months, ending with a 170% return (independently audited).

• Airbus: Used Palantir to improve assembly of the A350 by about 30%—fewer delays, fewer mistakes, and more planes finished each month using the same factories and workers.

• BP: Runs virtual “digital twins” of oil platforms and fields so engineers can spot problems early, prevent breakdowns, and make better decisions before something goes wrong.

• National power company (unnamed): Used Palantir to map 10,000+ miles of power lines and find weak spots before they fail.

These aren’t future promises—they’re real improvements in speed, cost, reliability, and output. This is what applied AI actually looks like in the real world.

Stronger companies create real jobs.

[Sirius Lee]

If you’re a low level coder, your days are numbered. If you’re a designer/engineer, AI is making your life easier as you don’t have to farm the work out to the aforementioned. If you’re a data analyst or financial manager, you are already prompting AI to build the queries to pull your data and create your decks. If not, you’ve probably missed the boat.

[Clutch Martin]

“Guess there is always starvation...can’t work so no eats.”

There’s ALWAYS electrical work... and Electrical Workers hold the key to shutting AI off. Job security.

[dpetty121263]

Well I already got that skill...working with that kind of voltage is a life ender...

[T.B. Yoits]

From the article: Some major companies have recently triggered a wave of layoffs... Most cited artificial intelligence (AI) integration and automation...

They're blaming the "AI" boogeyman but it's the automation and lower cost Indian programmers supporting that automation.

[T.B. Yoits]

...1/3rd of Hollywood jobs have disappeared. 48,000 gone. Most I suspect due to the terrible scold movies and tv shows they make but AI is replacing background players and set design builders etc.

Some of that is due to the industry shift away from Hollywood. The Arri Alexa digital movie camera was released in 2010. Since then, movie producers had a more plentiful, less expensive, and better filming options than Hollywood could offer. The James Bond movie "Skyfall" (2012) was filmed using Alexa digital cameras and won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography.

Add in Computer Generated Imagery and regular television shows can be filmed against a blue screen (or green screen), cutting back on set construction by instead using digital backgrounds created by lower cost overseas video editors.