The AI-Washing of Corporate Restructuring: Decoding Sam Altman’s Warning
In the glass-walled offices of Silicon Valley, a new and convenient narrative has taken hold to explain the grim reality of the pink slip. As a wave of job cuts continues to ripple through the technology sector, chief executives have increasingly pointed to the rising tide of artificial intelligence as the primary driver of workforce reductions. But Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI and the de facto face of the current boom, is offering a more pointed, and perhaps more cynical, diagnosis.