Block entlässt 40 % seiner Belegschaft aufgrund der Einführung von KI – Etwa 4.000 Arbeitnehmer werden ihren Arbeitsplatz verlieren, da das Zahlungsunternehmen mehr mit neuen Tools für künstliche Intelligenz arbeitet, sagte sein Top-Manager.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/technology/block-square-job-cuts-ai.html
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From the article
Block, the financial technology company that owns Square, Cash App and Tidal, said on Thursday that it was cutting 40 percent of its work force as it embraced new artificial intelligence tools.
About 4,000 employees are expected to lose their jobs, Jack Dorsey, the company’s top executive, said in a social media post.
The cuts, made as Block reported strong financial results for its most recent quarter, are perhaps the most striking example so far of a technology company’s making plans to eliminate employees because of A.I.
The efficiencies frequently turn out to be human employees working harder to make up for AI doing sloppy work. I’m sure there are some real efficiency gains out there but not many.
It’s bizarre when companies do this. Why not slowly roll out AI? If you lay off 40% of your work force and AI can’t maintain the same level of quality, then what?
Zoom out on Block’s stock history to see why they’re doing a 40% layoff.
Ironically in this case he’s not even claiming that they’ve achieved the AI based gains. He’s claiming that this will _let_ them make those gains.
Or Stripe is just eating their lunch every day of the week
And we all just sit and watch this bullshit happen. If we allow the big corps to push AI at will, the world will be fucked. Dependent on Tech for everything and everything will be worse.
Is there somewhere I can go to opt out ?