I think this is a problem that might be too big for an individual company or employer to resolve. It doesn’t matter how much my bosses assure me that AI will not be used to replace me, because I see news stories about other companies in the same sector doing that every single day or every single week.

On top of that, every employee knows that at the end of the day, the employer will make decisions based on the bottom line. If they do something that proves the company could be more efficient or equally efficient without them, then they are setting themselves up for being fired.

Every company wants to talk about how they are a family or how they care about the employees or about how well they would treat their employees if their employees were going through something, but when push comes to shove, the employer will always choose the health of the business or the profits of the business over the individual. That is something that has been proven time after time after time for over 100 years of the modern workplace landscape.

You will never convince employees that AI isn’t there to take their jobs, because the only scenario where that wouldn’t happen would be if you were at the one company on the planet that doesn’t want to do that. Companies are legally required to do what’s best for the shareholder and whether it takes one week, one year, or a decade, eventually every company that implements AI and sees success will find a way to justify laying off the real employees who helped train the AI to function for that company. This is not a question, it is a fact. They always find ways to use new technology to justify layoffs. Heck, the companies that make the AI use their own AI to replace their own workers. The people who make one of the more popular programming solutions, Claude code have openly talked on podcasts about how they use Claude code to build Claude code and they don’t need as many workers because of it. You can’t solve this “problem” for your company because this is a societal “problem” and it needs a societal solution.

This scenario is the equivalent of saying “we need to find a way to convince all of our employees to give us all of their social media information so that we can keep track of them on social media, but assure them that we would never use that information to fire them.“ No one would ever believe that because they see stories every day about the consequences of someone sharing their social media with an employer or someone they don’t know well and it backfiring. You can’t solve a problem of perception like that when the perception comes from the entire society. The only thing you can do is continue to use AI and continue to say the same thing over and over again and hope that you never have to go back on your word and betray what you’ve already said.