AI will get even more of the blame for layoffs than it deserves.

If a company does layoffs, that's a sign that it's not doing well.

But if a company says they're doing layoffs because their AI adoption is so strong, that's a positive signal to the market.

Every company that does layoffs will do everything it can to spin it as AI.

This, combined with the tech industry's disruptive power, helps guarantee making AI a thing that society pushes back on.