Job Cuts Due to AI: What to Make of Them?

Companies do seem to be reacting to ChatGPT and its ilk—and workers are being affected. What does this portend?

Source: Forbes

What Happened

In 2020, Sathvik Nair and I wrote that, while it was an impressive breakthrough, GPT-3 was not coming for your job. Indeed, GPT-3 did enable impressive work without causing major disruption, but ChatGPT and its ilk feel qualitatively different from their predecessors and, in the opinion of many people watching recent developments, augur badly for workers.