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New York — AI probably won’t take your job anytime soon. At least not all of it.
Concerns about artificial intelligence replacing human workers have simmered over the past year as companies slash headcounts, AI models grow more capable of office work and businesses integrate AI more deeply into their operations. AI was the top reason companies cited for job cuts in April for the second month in a row, the executive outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas said Thursday.

“The anxiety around AI at work is real—from fears of job loss to the pressure to keep up with rapidly evolving technology,” Microsoft wrote in a report about how AI is changing jobs released last week.

But the reality of AI in the workplace isn’t so black-and-white, experts say. Companies are using AI to automate certain parts of jobs rather than replace entire positions.

Business leaders are figuring out what AI can and can’t do, recalibrating existing jobs around responsibilities that can only be done by a human. And thousands of jobs have been cut in the process, with web infrastructure company Cloudflare and cryptocurrency firm Coinbase among the latest to announce staff cuts.

“It’s very few jobs that are actually entirely automated away by the current AI and robotics technology that’s out there,” said Alexis Krivkovich, a senior partner at McKinsey & Company who helps lead the company’s People and Organizational Performance Practice.

AI is technically capable of automating 57% of work-related activities, Krivkovich said, citing McKinsey research. But that percentage is spread across “pieces and parts” of various jobs and responsibilities across an organization.

Nitin Seth, the cofounder of digital services and consulting firm Incedo, claims his company helps clients boost productivity using AI by at least 20% to 25% without reducing staff at the same scale. That’s because AI only handles certain parts of different roles.

“You can’t take one quarter of Lisa, one quarter of Jessica, one quarter of Nitin and one quarter of somebody else and make it one person,” Seth said.

The fear that AI will take jobs has disrupted the tech industry the most. Software engineers have increasingly embraced the tech to help write code, with 90% of tech workers using AI in their jobs, according to a September survey from Google’s research arm. Stack Overflow, a popular question-and-answer forum for developers, found that 84% of respondents either use AI tools in the software development process or plan to.

But a software engineer’s job involves much more than just coding: It entails reviewing the code, designing systems, troubleshooting problems and deciding what to build. Companies may adjust job titles to reflect that, says Boris Cherny, head of Claude Code at Anthropic.

“I think by the end of the year, we’re going to start to see the idea of software engineering go away,” he told CNN in March. He thinks the term “builder” might be a more fitting title as the job expands, and writing lines of code becomes a smaller part of it.

Sujata Sridharan, who most recently worked at the fintech firm Bolt and has spent roughly a decade as a software engineer, is one of the many engineers living through that transition.

Although she uses AI, her work still requires problem solving and critical thinking, she told CNN over email. The difference is that the execution now involves a mix of writing code and prompting AI.

“With AI being used more and more, the skills that are actually required on the job have shifted to, are you able to recognize what is the right code quality? Are you able to problem solve?” she said.

That’s not to say AI isn’t contributing to job losses; it just likely isn’t taking over full roles. AI has been cited in more than 49,000 job cuts so far this year, the report from Challenger, Gray & Christmas said.

Block, the financial tech company behind Square and Cash App, laid off 40% of its staff this year because AI has allowed it to do more with smaller teams. Coinbase is reducing its staff by about 14% in part because AI is enabling engineers to “ship in days what used to take a team weeks,” its CEO said Tuesday.

And Cloudflare said the way the company operates has completely changed, adding that its AI use has increased by more than 600% in the last three months alone.

It’s possible there will be “some job disruption on the horizon,” according to Dan Priest, PwC’s US chief AI officer. Still, he said he isn’t seeing mass layoffs at most companies and whole categories of jobs aren’t currently at risk.

Most companies haven’t yet adjusted its employee metrics and incentives to fit with how AI is changing work, Microsoft said in its report, which surveyed 20,000 workers using AI across 10 countries.

Instead, many are simply grappling with which skills are needed from human workers.

And the tech landscape may keep changing as AI models evolve and potentially take on more office tasks. For example, Anthropic on Tuesday announced new AI agents built for financial work, like building pitchbooks and crafting credit memos.

“It starts at the bottom, and it keeps going up,” said Umesh Ramakrishnan, cofounder and chief strategy officer at executive search firm Kingsley Gate. “And I don’t know where it stops.”


https://edition.cnn.com/2026/05/10/tech/ai-taking-jobs?utm_medium=social&utm_source=whatsappCNN&utm_content=2026-05-10T09:40:19

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Married for over a decade.

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Been on Nairaland since 2008.

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Too many useless topics on this forum lately!

Rapmoney:
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I have been a member of Nairaland since 2008. I am not one of your Gen Z/ChatGPT group member.

Damn.

Why all that noise?

You have been a member of Nairaland since 2008.

Should I fry beans?

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If you check am now... OP and his host of commentators aren't married and probably don't have any children.

People who have never worn the shoe are the ones who are good at using AI to generate topics and set expectations.

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Hussein035:
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If God has sent Jesus to create Christianity then Jesus must have been the founder. Infact the word CHRISTIAN was not mentioned by Jesus and any of his deciples

So CHRISTIANITY is just a business that requires high level of lying that's why pastors said they already ate in the same plate with God

Very useless people controlled by the demonic forces that gave them congregation

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Checkwell:
You're not making any sense. It would have been great if you had not spoken a word. Cheers.

You're yet to have a grasp of basic science, yet you want to understand quantum physics?

Surely, it won't make any sense to you.

Why should a Nigerian be afraid of missing rapture, or hell?

Can be a PhD holder and be afraid of A-levels.

Number 1.

Thank you.

Who is bankrolling these dumb posts making Frontpage these days?

MrPresident1:
The great cohesive factor in any society is it's ideology.

Islam is the best ideology for Nigeria and the world at this time.

If western civilization is your own cohesive factor, then love can never matter.

Money will matter more than love or anything else.

Thunder fire you and your Islam there!

AllBlack:
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You heard this before or you googled?

either ways... you are a real gee.

The song is from the R. E. D album.

Song title City ft Kendrick Lamar

The theme of the visuals was about Gang violence.

Ama press the Red button.

If you pressed blue... Then go explain to God why you picked that colour.

AllBlack:
Red is a very emotionally and intense color
It enhances human metabolism, increases respiration rate and raises blood pressure.
It has a very high visibility, which is why stop signs, Stop lights, and fire equipments are usually painted red.

More than 50% will press the RED button.

I will press RED too. But I prefer the button that ends the world.

It also represents one-third of California's gang population

Needless to say
Please dress accordingly while visiting the Los Angeles area
Also, tuck your jewelry
And keep your hands inside your vehicle

Thank you

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Ali Bomaye ft 2 Chains and Rick Ross
Ol English
One Night
Like father Like son

Does our Navy have an air fleet?

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Fuckyoumod:
This is football not basketball.

Go and watch NBA where the score over 200 goals for your entertainment.

There's a difference between goals and points.

And an NBA game that has more points, especially three's will be more entertaining than the game with less points.

thatigboman:
If it wasnt a penalty, why didn't the ref withdraw the yellow card he gave to the athletico player that committed the foul?

The yellow card was given to another player for "Arguement"


That was a 50/50 contest, and the Arsenal player didn't have the ball.

thatigboman:
Arsenel will win the UCL for sure

Even the players will laugh at this joke!

ZombieDredd:
Stale
But you are hanging around watching a boring match

You were the one criticising PSG/Bayern's game yesterday.

Is this what you call an entertaining match?

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Shoot him to death too.

Simple!

Talented dude.

Nice initiative.

But why all the big big grammar?

engrchykae:
you are likely to end up organ trafficker if you are not one already.
With people like you around fragile people,suicides will be on the rise

The way you people jump on other people's mentions and say trash is appalling.

That is his opinion.

Can't you type yours and let the young man be?

1. Thank God I wasn't born into this generation.
2. Thank God I moved out of the country.
3. Thank God we don't have all this madness here. My kids are safe from this type of influence, at least for now.
4. Thank God I don't pay attention to all this nonsense.

Please spell words correctly when you post, and try to use perfect grammar and punctuation.

It's always the hippopotamus

lagonovo:
Exactly. Most of the students finish these tech courses with no idea what next to do.

Tech field is not the issue, it is not dependent on availability of jobs but more of creative problem-solving, and money flows into that.

The issue is the sweet talking half-baked overnight trainers who saw opportunities in the training side. They frustrate students and their sponsors with their lies. You can't give what you don't have.

While direct onsite training is preferred by many, the best path to eliminate fakery is a deep dive into time tested online training. However, a good training school with real mentors moves you closer to your goals much faster.

OP should add this comment to his topic.

The popularity is currently driven by trainers who lure people into paying for their courses.

And that's even where the money is - Selling the courses!

Tenses:
You just used lengthy words to say nothing.

He made sense.

It's all a bandwagon effect.. Just like everyone using the word "literally"

SisterAnn:
Terrorist typing from his underground hideout. 😅

"Supreme Terrorist"

Add some respect to the man's office!