Amazon employees and supporters gather during a walk-out protest against layoffs, a return-to-office mandate, and the company's environmental impact, outside Amazon headquarters in Seattle, Washington, on May 31, 2023. Jason Redmond/AFP via Getty Images
Last week, Microsoft and Meta both announced significant reductions in force. Big Tech layoffs—sometimes tens of thousands of employees at once—make for attention-grabbing news. They portend imminent doom: human displacement driven by artificial intelligence (AI).
