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Is anybody peeved that they manipulate their stories to say that humans don't want to interact with humans when purchasing products , The same trash is spouted about us mear humans not wanting to touch dirty dollar notes - Ai is a scam
 
its bizarre for a non believer as my self ,that you can be anywhere and a majority of all ages have head down ,flicking the finger not engaged with their surroundings - Good Luck
 
A few people I know were caught up in layoffs the last few weeks, but AI is clearly having an impact.


I'm in a customer facing role, so I think there is a bit more safety in what I do (whilst people want to work with people). I am sure there will come a day where it will be agent to agent buying, but I dont think we are close to that yet.

But there are roles that definitely arent going to exist in a few years...

So how is everyone feeling about ai agents replacing humans?
What impacts are you seeing in your workplaces?

Keen to hear from @hammertime and @Spartan117 because I believe we are in similar industries
 
mtd#2 said:
A few people I know were caught up in layoffs the last few weeks, but AI is clearly having an impact.


I'm in a customer facing role, so I think there is a bit more safety in what I do (whilst people want to work with people). I am sure there will come a day where it will be agent to agent buying, but I dont think we are close to that yet.

But there are roles that definitely arent going to exist in a few years...

So how is everyone feeling about ai agents replacing humans?
What impacts are you seeing in your workplaces?

Keen to hear from @hammertime and @Spartan117 because I believe we are in similar industries
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I was at a Gartner conference on AI last week...interesting stat was they reviewed 1.4m layoffs in 2025 and the first 2 months of 2026 and less than 1% were related to AI, and less than 2% had an indirect relation to AI. Many companies are AI washing, using it as an excuse. The other interesting stat is that the companies that are most successfully deploying AI with no layoffs are actually seeing a productivity increase. The reality is we are still a fair way off autonomous AI and the Human still needs to be in the loop, what it may mean is that we increase capacity and productivity, however we slow down any increase in headcount.
 
TheEnz said:
I was at a Gartner conference on AI last week...interesting stat was they reviewed 1.4m layoffs in 2025 and the first 2 months of 2026 and less than 1% were related to AI, and less than 2% had an indirect relation to AI. Many companies are AI washing, using it as an excuse. The other interesting stat is that the companies that are most successfully deploying AI with no layoffs are actually seeing a productivity increase. The reality is we are still a fair way off autonomous AI and the Human still needs to be in the loop, what it may mean is that we increase capacity and productivity, however we slow down any increase in headcount.
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I think its a bit of both. The one I have details on definitely used AI as an excuse to cut SOME of their folks. but there were plenty let go where AI has taken on alot of their roles. A mate of mine told me a month ago he doesnt know how long he will keep his role because AI was doing everything...

You are right though, it still needs a human.. but it probably doesnt need the same amount of humans.. e.g. if there are 15 ppl in a team and all the manual work is now done by AI, they could cut that team to 5 and split the workload up amongst those employees.

Interesting times.

You at AWS tmw/Thursday?
 
TheEnz said:
I was at a Gartner conference on AI last week...interesting stat was they reviewed 1.4m layoffs in 2025 and the first 2 months of 2026 and less than 1% were related to AI, and less than 2% had an indirect relation to AI. Many companies are AI washing, using it as an excuse. The other interesting stat is that the companies that are most successfully deploying AI with no layoffs are actually seeing a productivity increase. The reality is we are still a fair way off autonomous AI and the Human still needs to be in the loop, what it may mean is that we increase capacity and productivity, however we slow down any increase in headcount.
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100% this. I have yet to see a successful wide-scale adoption of AI that would eliminate humans to any large extent. A lot is still very much in the POC phase. That said, there is a significant ramp-up of clients exploring firm-wide transformations, but exploration is a fair way off from implementation and then redundancies.

Most of it at the moment is AI washing, as you correctly point out @TheEnz . But that said, there certainly are efficiencies to be gained. The question is: will that translate into enhanced services and/or greater goods volume/quality or just simply business cost savings.
 
mtd#2 said:
I think its a bit of both. The one I have details on definitely used AI as an excuse to cut SOME of their folks. but there were plenty let go where AI has taken on alot of their roles. A mate of mine told me a month ago he doesnt know how long he will keep his role because AI was doing everything...

You are right though, it still needs a human.. but it probably doesnt need the same amount of humans.. e.g. if there are 15 ppl in a team and all the manual work is now done by AI, they could cut that team to 5 and split the workload up amongst those employees.

Interesting times.

You at AWS tmw/Thursday?
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Nah, was at microsoft roadshow, then telstra and then Gartner over last few weeks....I need a break from AI.
 
hammertime said:
100% this. I have yet to see a successful wide-scale adoption of AI that would eliminate humans to any large extent. A lot is still very much in the POC phase. That said, there is a significant ramp-up of clients exploring firm-wide transformations, but exploration is a fair way off from implementation and then redundancies.

Most of it at the moment is AI washing, as you correctly point out @TheEnz . But that said, there certainly are efficiencies to be gained. The question is: will that translate into enhanced services and/or greater goods volume/quality or just simply business cost savings.
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RPA was the buzzword that would cost many jobs, however it was not really commercially viable for larger use cases....AI will have more of an impact, however there is still a significant cost and nobody really has a handle on it yet.
 
mtd#2 said:
A few people I know were caught up in layoffs the last few weeks, but AI is clearly having an impact.


I'm in a customer facing role, so I think there is a bit more safety in what I do (whilst people want to work with people). I am sure there will come a day where it will be agent to agent buying, but I dont think we are close to that yet.

But there are roles that definitely arent going to exist in a few years...

So how is everyone feeling about ai agents replacing humans?
What impacts are you seeing in your workplaces?

Keen to hear from @hammertime and @Spartan117 because I believe we are in similar industries
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Im heavily in the Ai innovation world in particular in protecting people.

Working with some of the biggest and brightest it is certainly a new frontier.
 
mtd#2 said:
I think its a bit of both. The one I have details on definitely used AI as an excuse to cut SOME of their folks. but there were plenty let go where AI has taken on alot of their roles. A mate of mine told me a month ago he doesnt know how long he will keep his role because AI was doing everything...

You are right though, it still needs a human.. but it probably doesnt need the same amount of humans.. e.g. if there are 15 ppl in a team and all the manual work is now done by AI, they could cut that team to 5 and split the workload up amongst those employees.

Interesting times.

You at AWS tmw/Thursday?
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Aws yep
 
Personally, I think we are still at the thin edge of wedge. It’s still at the augmentation stage where it’s a tool we use to improve what we do (e.g. analysis, summary, content creation, coding). We will start to see the next evolution with things like co-work where you can chain AI responses with real tasks. I believe that will have an increased impact.
Initially, I think job roles most affected will be those with high repetition tasks including customer service and administration or have some sort of consistent patterns to complete their roles e.g. software development (huge impact to offshoring) and data science and analytics.
Definitely the most Interesting and potentially confronting technology I have seen in my career.
 
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