AI impact in the United States
Tracking AI-driven job losses and impacts in the United States: 88 reports, 45,417 jobs affected in sourced events. Posted and discussed by the people affected.
Verified AI job losses in United States
Reports and discussion
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Andrew Yang, now running a phone carrier, says $3 trillion of AI spending will '100% replace millions of workers' and that his own firm has stopped hiring juniors
Andrew Yang spent his 2020 presidential run warning that automation would take American jobs. He now runs one: Noble Mobile, the wireless carrier he launched in 2025, and he introd…
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Automation is now the most common reason insurers give for planned job cuts, the industry's own labour study finds, as US insurance employment falls for an eleventh month
The Jacobson Group and Aon's third-quarter 2026 Insurance Labor Market Study, published on 24 August, found that among the insurers planning to reduce staff in the next 12 months, …
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Oracle has told California it will cut 441 jobs in Redwood City, Santa Clara and Pleasanton on 13 November, the state's WARN list shows
Oracle America filed three WARN notices with California's Employment Development Department on 14 September 2026, received the following day, for permanent layoffs taking effect on…
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Ford's chief executive says spreadsheet, call-centre and entry-level programming jobs will be 'changed and eliminated' in AI's first inning, while the skilled trades get a companion
Jim Farley, chief executive of Ford, drew a line through the labour market at a media roundtable at the Ford Pro Accelerate event in Detroit on 30 September 2026, reported first-ha…
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Verizon's chief executive expects AGI within 18 months and says not everybody will land in a better place
Dan Schulman, the chief executive of Verizon, told an audience in Detroit on 30 September 2026 that he expects "some form of AGI in the next six to 18 months" and that the effects …
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CrowdStrike cut about 500 jobs, and its chief executive told staff that AI flattens the hiring curve
CrowdStrike, the cybersecurity company, announced on 6 May 2025 a plan that it told the SEC "is expected to result in a reduction of roles representing approximately 500 positions …
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Bill Gates says many jobs will disappear forever, and proposes reserving some work for humans and taxing AI tokens and robots
Bill Gates published an essay on 26 August 2026 arguing that the world has no plan for the arrival of AI and needs one before unemployment rises sharply. He expects AI to take on w…
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Indeed and Glassdoor cut 1,300 jobs in a memo that says AI is changing the world, without saying AI took the work
Recruit Holdings, the Japanese owner of Indeed and Glassdoor, cut about 1,300 jobs across the two career sites in July 2025, about 6% of its HR technology workforce. Chief executiv…
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Connecticut employers must now tell the state whether a mass layoff is related to AI, under a rule that took effect on 1 October
Since 1 October 2026, every employer that files a federal WARN notice with Connecticut's Labor Department has had a new question to answer. Section 26 of Public Act 26-15 says each…
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AI was the stated reason for 3,961 US job cuts in September, only the fifth-biggest cause, yet it still leads 2026 at 120,136
Challenger, Gray & Christmas, the outplacement firm that counts announced US job cuts by the reason employers give, published its September report on 1 October 2026. Employers anno…
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Monte Carlo cut 30% of its team, and its chief executive says AI lets smaller groups do the work
Monte Carlo, the US data-reliability software company, restructured in March 2026 and "said goodbye to 30% of our team", co-founder and chief executive Barr Moses wrote in a public…
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Freshworks cut about 500 jobs and its chief executive says its systems now handle work that once took several teams
Freshworks, the customer-service software company, told the SEC on 5 May 2026 that it would cut "approximately 500 employees globally, representing approximately 11% of the Company…
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Paycom cut about 540 jobs and told the SEC that automating its own systems had led to reductions in headcount
Paycom, the Oklahoma City payroll and HR software company, announced on 1 October 2025 a workforce reduction that its quarterly SEC filing puts at "approximately 540 employees, rep…
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Acrisure is cutting 2,250 jobs, and its chief executive's letter says AI is changing how the work gets done
Acrisure, the Grand Rapids insurance brokerage and fintech, told staff on 20 May 2026 that it is cutting about 2,250 roles, 11 percent of its workforce, in phases running into 2027…
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California becomes the first state to make employers say when AI caused a mass layoff, and to put a human behind an AI firing
Governor Gavin Newsom signed two laws on 30 September 2026 that go to the centre of what this site tracks. Senate Bill 947 stops employers relying only on an automated decision sys…
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Workday's third cut in 20 months takes 525 product and technology jobs, from a CEO who says AI tools will keep headcount flat
Workday told the SEC on 29 September 2026 that it is eliminating about 2.5 percent of its workforce, roughly 525 of some 21,000 people, primarily within its Product and Technology …
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The AI safety protest reached OpenAI's developer conference with a new demand: do something about the layoffs
A few dozen protesters rallied outside OpenAI's DevDay conference at Fort Mason in San Francisco on 29 September 2026, and for the first time in this month's run of demonstrations …
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New York tells its AI workforce commission to deliver policy recommendations by December, citing a 37% fall in the city's entry-level corporate jobs
Governor Kathy Hochul said on 29 September 2026 that New York's FutureWorks Commission has been directed to deliver specific recommendations by the end of December, which her admin…
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McKinsey: 11 million US workers may have to change occupation by 2035 as AI removes demand for 36 million jobs
The McKinsey Global Institute said in a report covered by CNN Business on 29 September 2026 that automation and artificial intelligence could push about 11 million American workers…
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Raimondo warns of mass AI job displacement without transition planning
Gina Raimondo, former Commerce Secretary now leading the nonprofit Raise Us, told CNBC she fears tens of millions of Americans could face unemployment or underemployment if AI adop…
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Did Apple shelve AI job losses at AppleCare? A plan to replace 5,000 support staff with AI agents is on hold
Apple had planned to lay off roughly 5,000 AppleCare support employees and hand their work to generative AI phone and web agents, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reported on 29 September 2…
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Did AI cut 26 percent of C3 AI? Its SEC filing says cost structure, while its CEO says agentic AI made the rest of the staff 100 times more productive
C3 AI, the enterprise-AI vendor, told the SEC on 25 February 2026 that its board had approved a restructuring plan including "a 26% reduction in its global workforce", already subs…
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Visa is cutting 2,600 jobs, and its chief executive's memo says AI is shaping the way work gets done
Visa told staff on 28 July 2026 that it will eliminate about 2,600 positions, roughly 7 percent of its 34,100 employees, mostly in its technology and product teams, in a memo from …
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Why are workers more anxious than ever? Glassdoor finds mentions of AI in employee reviews up 164% in a year
Employee confidence in the US fell to a record low in September, the third new low this year, according to the Glassdoor Employee Confidence Index published on 28 September 2026. T…
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JPMorgan's consumer-banking chief expects AI to shrink operations headcount by about 10%, and says it could be more
In the employer's own words: said by the head of the consumer bank at the company's investor day. This cut has not happened yet and is not counted in the verified job-loss totals. …
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Expedia layoffs reach Springfield finance staff as 58 Seattle roles cut and AI "force multiplier" cited
Expedia Group told employees at its Springfield, Missouri office on Sept. 21, 2026 that organizational changes and layoffs would be announced through Sept. 22, with cuts focused on…
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Google Layoff Pushed Engineer to Reject Lucrative Offer and Start AI Startup
Rob Waters, a 42-year-old Google data analytics and AI sales specialist, was laid off in November 2025 while traveling for work - his laptop was remotely disabled mid-flight. In De…
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Is it an AI layoff if the CEO says it isn't? Patreon cut 20% and said AI changed how it works, not who it needs
Patreon laid off about 20% of its workforce, roughly 93 employees, The Verge reported on 23 July 2026, following 404 Media. Chief executive Jack Conte's memo to staff went out of i…
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Is AI replacing tech workers, or paying for itself with their jobs? 94,000 US tech layoffs so far in 2026
U.S. tech companies cut at least 94,046 jobs from January through August 2026, up 16.8% on the same months of 2025, according to Crunchbase's Tech Layoff Tracker. The year came in …
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Is Hollywood really losing jobs to AI? The Paramount-Warner merger papers blame debt and consolidation
Hollywood often blames AI for its shrinking payrolls, but the paperwork behind the roughly $110 billion Paramount Skydance takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery points somewhere else,…