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AI really takes the jobs

BT, a British telecom giant, wants to cut between 40 - 50 THOUSAND jobs during the next decade. That's almost half of the company's current personnel totalling about 130,000 people, including both stuff and contractors.

A fifth of those losing their job is to be replaced by the AI, according to the BT's top management.

"Whenever you get new technologies you can get big changes," said chief executive Philip Jansen. "Generative AI gives us confidence we can go even further".

According to BBC:
- BT has about 80,000 employees in the UK, and this is where the bulk of the cuts will come.
- Plus, it has about 20,000 staff abroad.
- It also has 30,000 contractors, mainly abroad. Many of those roles will go.

Even though, not all of those jobs to be taken by the AI, the current layoffs trend among the big companies, makes one think - where are we going?

- if it scares you.

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