{"id":4125,"date":"2025-07-30T19:20:36","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T19:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/ceo-lays-off-150-employees-replaced-ai\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T19:20:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T19:20:36","slug":"ceo-lays-off-150-employees-replaced-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/ceo-lays-off-150-employees-replaced-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"CEO Lays Off 150 Employees, Tells Them They’ll Largely Be Replaced With AI"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Executives are stumbling over themselves to replace pesky and expensive human labor with AI.<\/p>\n

In the latest instance, the billionaire cofounder and CEO of software giant Atlassian\u00a0Mike Cannon-Brookes announced that 150 people would be laid off, with some jobs being replaced with AI tech, outlets including Sky News<\/em> report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to the Sydney Morning Herald<\/em><\/a>, the cuts affect customer service roles exposed to AI.<\/p>\n

Cannon-Brookes made the announcement over a video call from his home. Affected staffers are expected to be paid for the next six months, softening the blow a little.<\/p>\n

It’s a sign of the times, though, as executives are looking to automate vast swathes of the job market<\/a> with the help of AI. The tech industry, in particular, has been rocked by mass layoffs<\/a> for years now as companies double down on multibillion-dollar investments in AI data center buildouts<\/a> and poaching high-profile talent from their competitors<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The news comes after OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warned that entire job categories<\/a> \u2014 including the customer support roles\u00a0that took a hit at Atlassian \u2014\u00a0could soon be wiped out by AI.<\/p>\n

“Now you call one of these things and AI answers,” Altman told Federal Reserve vice-chair for supervision Michelle Bowman during a recent appearance. “It\u2019s like a super-smart, capable person. There\u2019s no phone tree, there\u2019s no transfers. It can do everything that any customer support agent at that company could do.”<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Atlassian’s other billionaire cofounder, Scott Farquhar, defended the layoffs, telling reporters today<\/a> that Australia’s copyright laws should be revised so AI companies had free rein to mine data unobstructed.<\/p>\n

“If we make call centre staff more productive, people aren\u2019t going to call more [and] we\u2019ll probably need less call centre staff,” Farqhuar said, as quoted by the Herald<\/em>. “Some parts of our economy will grow significantly as AI makes them more productive, and some parts of our economy will shrink as we do that.”<\/p>\n

In a company blog post a spokesperson highlighted to the newspaper, Atlassian pointed to its code of ethics, justifying its mass layoffs.<\/p>\n

“Our value of \u2018Build with Heart and Balance\u2019 is about making the hard, right decisions with passion, empathy, and care,” the blog post reads.<\/p>\n

Cannon-Brookes already came under fire earlier this year after buying a personal jet for upwards of $75 million \u2014 despite his climate advocacy and push for solar energy, Sky News<\/em> reports.<\/p>\n

“I\u2019m not denying I have a deep internal conflict on this,” he wrote in a LinkedIn post<\/a> back in March, arguing he needed his plane for “personal security” reasons.<\/p>\n

More on AI layoffs:<\/strong> Sam Altman Says OpenAI Is Poised to Wipe Out Entire Categories of Human Jobs<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

The post CEO Lays Off 150 Employees, Tells Them They’ll Largely Be Replaced With AI<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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