> The IBM layoffs articles have been passed around executive management recently. That IBM interview was highly speculative, and was arguably as much a smoke s

> The IBM layoffs articles have been passed around executive management recently. That IBM interview was highly speculative, and was arguably as much a smoke screen for layoffs they wanted to do anyway as it was a prediction of their future AI plans. No one at IBM has been layed off due to AI yet either, they simply "expect" they can do it in years to come, which may well be true. I don't think this is common yet anywhere serious, as realistically you aren't going to be replacing an IC with an LLM yet, despite the hype, with very few exceptions. Arvind Krishna is as much trying to associate IBM with the current AI investor craze as he is making a sensible statement about the future of work in that interview, and it should be seen as the investor marketing it is. IBM have done this in the past too - remember the Watson AI ads with Bob Dylan? Now no one remembers the Watson brand. Planning to reduce headcount by 7800 people because you have awesome AI technology coming down the pipeline sounds a lot better to some investors ears than firing 7800 people because company isn't performing well, and investors are often rewarding AI news handsomely in the stock market recently. I can't even remember the last time I saw Arvind or senior IBM staff being interviewed in the mainstream media at all before he uttered the word AI.