Zolan Kano-Youngs

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936 appearances 6 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 1 Sep

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The Daily · What A.I. Is Actually Doing to the Economy · 27 Jul 2026 podcast

The problem is they're all telling different stories.

There have been very credible reports out recently from serious economists who have done careful work that show we're seeing losses of jobs for entry-level workers in AI-exposed occupations.

And you look at that and you say –

Here it is.

Here's the canary in the coal mine.

Here's the sign of AI starting to wipe out jobs.

And then somebody else comes along and puts out a report using good data, careful methods that says, aha, the companies that are adopting AI the most quickly are adding jobs more quickly than other companies.

So you may have different private sector companies trying to track AI, but they're coming up with takeaways that seem to be polar opposite at times.

That's right, which I think maybe isn't that surprising considering how quickly this is moving and how quickly this field is developing.

But I do feel like there are some companies who are already raising their hands and saying, AI is changing my business.

It's the latest round of mass layoffs.

Amazon cut thousands of jobs in the past year.

They cited AI.

Block, the payments company, is another.

The company announced plans to lay off almost half its workforce.

CEO Jack Dorsey pointed to AI, saying intelligence tools have, quote, changed what it means to build and run a company.

Help me make sense of this because I do think we are seeing these big almost announcements that seem like warning signs from these companies.

That's exactly right.

We're hearing these big announcements of layoffs in some cases directly tied to AI.

When I talk to economists, I hear a lot of skepticism about those claims.

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