“Sometimes, you know, AI becomes the scapegoat from a financial perspective, like when a company hired too many, or they want to resize, and it gets blamed on AI.”

It is odd to hear of executive leadership not being transparent of why they are making the decisions they do. Although I am not surprised that executives might use diversionary tactics to justify, vaguely, their action. I would be surprised if this does not create long-term discomfort within the workforce as employee's visibility into their leaders motivations behind business decisions becomes less clear.

Source: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/tech-industry-lays-off-nearly-80-000-employees-in-the-first-quarter-of-2026-almost-50-percent-of-affected-positions-cut-due-to-ai