Lindsay worked at Oracle for more than a decade and was “deeply passionate” about her job as a strategist. So learning by email one morning that her role was one of 21,000 cut by the technology company this year due to increased investment in AI was a “surreal” moment. “We were encouraged — pressured — to leverage AI . . . they were using us to train something that [would] ultimately replace us,” says Lindsay, who asked not to use her real name due to an ongoing legal dispute with her former employer. Oracle, which did not respond to a request for comment, is one of dozens of large employers that have attributed mass lay-offs to AI in the past three years.
More than 180,000 corporate job losses have been linked to AI since May 2023, according to executive outplacement company Challenger, Gray and Christmas, including 112,000 in 2026 alone.

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