Brian Merchant: “My general sense here is that ‘let’s use AI for stuff!’ is something bosses love saying but then the rank and file workers can’t actually figure out good uses for,” one journalist who works for an Axel Springer outlet told me at the time of the Business Insider layoffs. “Which I suspect is happening in lots of industries. Bosses panicking that if they don’t lean into AI they’ll be left behind, but AI not actually being particular useful for workers.” As I ...
