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Speaking at a session on “The Future of Employability in the Age of AI”, he said, “AI is happening, it is relentless, if you don’t do AI, AI will be done to you… Set a personal target of learning how to use three AI platforms within the next three months. The more you do that the more your job is safe.”
The rising AI is taking over many job roles earlier performed by humans. However, this trend is visible across every sector, with the tech industry being impacted the most. For example, the online retail and tech giant Amazon alone announced more than 16,000 job cuts in late January.
According to Layoffs.fyi, 26 other major companies that announced workforce reductions include Salesforce, Meta, Workday, Autodesk, Pinterest, Expedia, Zillow, Ericsson, and ASML. While several firms reduced job roles by hundreds of employees, smaller companies cut fewer roles.
Considering this trend of layoffs across the globe, tech leaders advised youngsters to respond to it by embracing AI tools and adapting to emerging technologies to remain relevant in the much faster-evolving job market.