{"id":195025,"date":"2026-03-11T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/11\/is-ai-really-to-blame-for-12000-job-cuts-or-is-it-a-scapegoat\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T01:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T05:30:19","slug":"is-ai-really-to-blame-for-12000-job-cuts-or-is-it-a-scapegoat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/11\/is-ai-really-to-blame-for-12000-job-cuts-or-is-it-a-scapegoat\/","title":{"rendered":"Is AI really to blame for 12,000 job cuts, or is it a scapegoat?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/2026\/03\/12\/is-ai-really-blame-12000-job-cuts-or-is-it-scapegoat\/\">Is AI really to blame for 12,000 job cuts, or is it a scapegoat?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/2026\/03\/12\/is-ai-really-blame-12000-job-cuts-or-is-it-scapegoat\/\">https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/2026\/03\/12\/is-ai-really-blame-12000-job-cuts-or-is-it-scapegoat\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-11 22:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.azfamily.com\">www.azfamily.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Over 12,000 job cuts in the first two months of 2026 are attributed to AI, representing about 8% of total layoffs.<\/li>\n<li>Critics like Lucas Hansen, co-founder of AI safety nonprofit CivAI, believe companies are using AI as an excuse for layoffs.<\/li>\n<li>January 2026 saw the highest monthly job losses since 2009, with 108,000 cuts, possibly reflecting employers correcting over-hiring from recent years.<\/li>\n<li>The Department of Labor&#8217;s Chief Innovation Officer, Taylor Stockton, suggests some companies are &#8220;scapegoating AI,&#8221; attributing layoffs to factors like changes in interest rates and overhiring post-pandemic.<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s a notable impact on early-career software developers, with studies showing significant employment declines and AI increasingly automating coding tasks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is AI really to blame for 12,000 job cuts, or is it a scapegoat? https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/2026\/03\/12\/is-ai-really-blame-12000-job-cuts-or-is-it-scapegoat\/&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":195026,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/gray-kpho-prod.gtv-cdn.com\/resizer\/v2\/QYCEFFHT4JEORKOKYBGR2XMWTA.png?auth=ea7fb596dea0aa12bf9b450ead398d8c7d2c13d258bd6b6662fc5b10328fae4c&width=1200&height=600&smart=true","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195025"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195027,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195025\/revisions\/195027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}