{"id":2721,"date":"2025-06-12T13:12:34","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T13:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/klarna-ceo-ai-replacing-jobs\/"},"modified":"2025-06-12T13:12:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T13:12:34","slug":"klarna-ceo-ai-replacing-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/klarna-ceo-ai-replacing-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"CEO Says AI Will Replace So Many Jobs That It\u2019ll Cause a Major Recession"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The CEO of layaway startup Klarna is claiming that AI is coming for your white-collar jobs \u2014 even though his own actions have made him an international poster boy for AI-obsessed executives itching to replace human workers with AI.<\/p>\n

Speaking to\u00a0The Times Tech<\/em> podcast<\/a>, the Sweden-based CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski admitted that adoption of the technology will result in “implication[s] for white-collar jobs” that include, but are not limited to, “at least a recession in the short term.”<\/p>\n

“Unfortunately, I don’t see how we could avoid it, with what’s happening from a technology perspective,” the CEO said in reference to job loss and a recession.<\/p>\n

On that part, unfortunately, he may be right: we’ve been careening headlong towards a recession<\/a> for a while now, and unemployment rates<\/a> \u2014 affected, no doubt, by AI-obsessed CEOs like Siemiatkowski laying people off in droves<\/a> \u2014 are a huge factor.<\/p>\n

Still, those are bold words coming from this particular Swedish CEO, considering that just a few weeks ago, he admitted to\u00a0Bloomberg<\/em><\/a> that he’s looking to rehire for some of the 700 customer service positions he boasted about replacing with AI<\/a> in 2024.<\/p>\n

The reason? Because, as Siemiatkowski acknowledged, the AIs perform at a “lower quality” than human workers.\u00a0(In a message after the publication of this story, a PR person at Klarna reached out to claim that “lower quality” was a “misquote.”)<\/p>\n

Despite prematurely pulling the AI trigger in his own business, the “buy now, pay later” CEO insists the technology will get there.<\/p>\n

“I feel like I have an email almost every day from some CEO of a tech or a large company that says we also see opportunities to become more efficient and we would like to compare notes,” he told\u00a0The Times Tech<\/em>. “If I just take all of those emails and add up the amount of jobs in those emails, it’s considerable.”<\/p>\n

Were\u00a0Futurism<\/em> to stake our beliefs by a similar metric, we, too would believe that AI replacing human labor is inevitable. In this writer’s inbox alone, there are dozens of similar pitches from companies and so-called “experts” seeking to get our attention from this week alone \u2014 and hundreds more where that came from, should we be curious to look.<\/p>\n

With AI’s present-day capabilities, those emails read as little more than junk mail \u2014 but it makes sense that a tech CEO who made his fortune on financial promises would see things a bit differently.<\/p>\n

Like other AI boosters, Siemieatkowski added that eventually, the “value of that human touch will increase” and that flesh-and-blood workers will “provide a much higher quality type of service” \u2014 after learning new skills, which may or may not become obsolete at some vague point in the future.<\/p>\n

Siemieatkowski is, perhaps more than anyone else, the platonic ideal of an AI-boosting CEO<\/a> \u2014 and unfortunately, there are lots of others who will take this kind of prognostication as gospel.<\/p>\n

More on clueless CEOs:<\/strong> Duolingo CEO Expresses Astonishment That People Were Mad When He Bragged About Replacing Workers With AI<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The post CEO Says AI Will Replace So Many Jobs That It\u2019ll Cause a Major Recession<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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