What Is Silent Firing?

Worried about losing your job to AI? Some experts say it’s already happening, and the trend has a name: Silent firing. “Silent firing” is when an employer makes a role so hard that employees quit, and then those jobs are replaced by AI. CEO of Prospero.Ai George Kailas thinks this is the real reason why Amazon is forcing employees to come into the office. “The best way to decrease retention while saving on severance would be to remove remote work,” Kailas said. However, some experts don’t think that many jobs can be replaced by AI yet. Economist and MIT professor Daaron Acemoglu thinks only 5% of jobs can be replaced or helped by AI in the coming decade. “A lot of money is going to get wasted, he said. “You’re not going to get an economic revolution out of that 5%.” (NY Post)