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AI Slashes 16,000 U.S. Jobs, Experts Urge Upskilling

5/22/2026

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Summary

Story summary

Goldman Sachs says AI cut U.S. payroll growth by about 16,000 jobs in 2023.
Prof. David Shrier advises workers to audit roles and develop physical skills AI cannot replace.
Prof. Oded Nov warns repeatable, rule-based tasks are at risk, citing Cloudflare’s 20% layoff of measurers.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says employees edit code even when AI assists, which analysts expect will automate routine work and create jobs needing human judgment.

History

Historical Context

In May 1997 IBM’s Deep Blue supercomputer defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov, evaluating 200 million positions per second and earning a $700,000 prize. The victory was hailed as a milestone for symbolic AI and paved the way for later breakthroughs such as Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo, which beat top Go players in 2016. Those advances underpin today’s rapid deployment of AI tools that are reshaping U.S. employment.

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Story summary

Goldman Sachs says AI cut U.S. payroll growth by about 16,000 jobs in 2023.
Prof. David Shrier advises workers to audit roles and develop physical skills AI cannot replace.
Prof. Oded Nov warns repeatable, rule-based tasks are at risk, citing Cloudflare’s 20% layoff of measurers.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says employees edit code even when AI assists, which analysts expect will automate routine work and create jobs needing human judgment.

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