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AI layoffs, in the employer’s own words
Every layoff we attribute to AI carries the company’s own statement, quoted verbatim, with a link to where they said it. This is the receipt behind the AI number: not inference, not press framing, the employer’s words. Filter it, quote it, check it.
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2 AI attributions · 500 jobs · 2018 · each with the employer’s quote and its source.
- Department of Home Affairs AI named as the cause
“Plans to automate simple visa applications threaten Tasmanian jobs”
- Suncor Energy AI named as the cause
“Union outcry as automation eats up 400 oilsands jobs”
How these are chosen: a cut appears here only when the employer named AI or automation as a cause in words we can quote, confirmed by two independent passes, with the source on file. Investment in AI, a future projection, or AI used to pick who goes does not qualify. This is the strict, quotable standard; the tracker also has a broader AI-linked measure, labelled separately. Full methodology →