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Block CEO Jack Dorsey laid off 4,000 employees (nearly half the workforce) citing AI productivity gains, but current and former workers argue that AI tools cannot replace their roles and require significant human oversight; workers describe the layoffs as performative market posturing and report that employees were pressured to train AI systems that would ostensibly replace them.

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theguardian.com · devonnull · 1 day ago · details · hn