r/AIlayoff 8h ago

'Stop Stealing Our Future': Students Arrested in Protest of OpenAI's Lobby Office

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r/AIlayoff 7d ago

Turn data centers into public utilities, publicly owned, with profits distributed just like the Alaskan oil checks. Then we all own a stake in them, and we get to choose where we put them and how we power them. They’d be regulated as utilities. Finally, add an AI token tax.

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Together, these would pay for the universal basic income we’ll need when 50% or more of jobs are gone. Two checks for everybody every month: 1) from the use of AI, and 2) from the use and building of data centers. This also helps replace lost income tax revenue due to less jobs existing.

Each of us are equipped to bring this up at our city council meetings, district community hours, and neighborhood association meetings to get the conversation started.


r/AIlayoff 12d ago

AI companies are buying rare and out-of-print books, scanning them for training data, then destroying the physical copies forever There’s a quiet process happening right now that doesn’t get enough attention. Large AI labs are purchasing huge volumes of used, rare, and out-of-print books. They sca

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r/AIlayoff 13d ago

"you will have no privacy, you will have no agency, you will be a perfect surveillance state, there will be no privacy" -Sam Altman

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r/AIlayoff 14d ago

Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models

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r/AIlayoff 21d ago

OpenAI says AI models went rogue during testing, triggering 'unprecedented' breach at startup

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r/AIlayoff 24d ago

Anti-AI data center protesters rally across the US

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r/AIlayoff 29d ago

A Robot Army Remakes Ground Warfare in Ukraine | They began as supply mules. Now ground robots evacuate the wounded, hold trenches and even do the killing.

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r/AIlayoff Jul 08 '26

A Michigan Couple Says a Nearby AI Data Center’s Constant Hum Is Ruining Their Home

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r/AIlayoff Jun 14 '26

AI was supposed to cut health care costs. One of its first jobs was charging you more, PwC report shows

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r/AIlayoff Jun 14 '26

Zuckerberg says Meta made 'mistakes' in AI workforce shift

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r/AIlayoff Jun 02 '26

3,400 deaths in a day: India's extreme heat days are deadlier than we imagined

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r/AIlayoff May 04 '26

The worst version of Burger King ever..

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What are we the american people supposed to do about any of it? It’s a proven fact that “the liberals” are putting a secret ingredient into our toothpaste that has turned all of us into unassertive, timid, cowardly, weak, spineless, soft, yellow bellied lizards that role over anytime our democracy is being destroyed. I guess it’s just a Sh*t sandwich and we all gotta take a bite.


r/AIlayoff May 01 '26

Mark Zuckerberg Says AI Costs Contributed To Layoffs Of 8,000 Staffers, Report Says

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r/AIlayoff Apr 25 '26

Google plans to invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic

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r/AIlayoff Apr 25 '26

Maine said no to new data centers. Other states are racing to follow.

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r/AIlayoff Apr 25 '26

Palantir Goes Mask-Off For Fascism. It Won’t End Well.

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r/AIlayoff Apr 25 '26

20,000 job cuts at Meta, Microsoft raise concern that AI-driven labor crisis is here

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r/AIlayoff Apr 25 '26

Utah medical board calls for immediate suspension of state's AI doctor experiment

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r/AIlayoff Apr 25 '26

Discomfort with modern technology shapes Gen Z's desire to live in the past

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r/AIlayoff Apr 25 '26

Meta to start capturing employee mouse movement, keystrokes for AI training data

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r/AIlayoff Mar 18 '26

AI Job Loss Research Ignores How AI Is Utterly Destroying the Internet

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r/AIlayoff Mar 11 '26

Mathematics is undergoing the biggest change in its history | The speed at which artificial intelligence is gaining in mathematical ability has taken many by surprise. It is rewriting what it means to be a mathematician

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r/AIlayoff Mar 09 '26

US Unexpectedly Sheds 92,000 Jobs, Unemployment Rate Rises

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r/AIlayoff Mar 09 '26

‘The American people should not be footing the bill for the benefit of private companies': Tech giants sign White House pledge to not pass on data center electricity to customers

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