Concerns about the impact of artificial ielligence on the workforce coinue to grow as advances in the field coinue to accelerate and new products that promise greater automation and increased productivity.
According to TechCrunch, the evidence shows that these concerns are not unfounded. A study conducted by MIT in November found that about 11.7 perce of jobs can now be automated using artificial ielligence. Surveys have also shown that employers are already eliminating some low-level jobs due to the spread of artificial ielligence. Also, companies raise artificial ielligence as one of the reasons for layoffs.
More jobs could be eliminated by artificial ielligence in 2026
As organizations embrace AI more seriously, some may be taking a closer look at how many employees they actually need. In a rece TechCrunch website survey, several veure capitalists said that artificial ielligence will have a big impact on the corporate workforce in 2026. This was ieresting because the survey did not specifically ask about artificial ielligence.
Hustle Fund co-founder and general partner Eric Bunn said he expects to see some labor market impacts in 2026, though he’s not yet sure exactly what those impacts will look like.
Also, Marl Evans, founder and managing partner of Exceptional Capital, predicted that companies looking to increase spending in the field of artificial ielligence will provide the necessary financial resources from labor and recruitme budgets. “In my view, along with the gradual increase in AI budgets, we will see further downsizing and downsizing will coinue to aggressively affect the American employme rate,” he said.
Rajiv Dam, CEO of Sapphire, also agrees with this view. He said the 2026 budgets will gradually shift resources from labor to artificial ielligence. Also, Jason Mendel, veure capitalist at Battery Veures, added that in 2026, artificial ielligence will act as more than just a tool to increase the productivity of curre employees.
