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AI adopters are already rehiring cut staff | David Gerard

Season 1

“It’s the surviving companies that will rehire, the others will have killed themselves with AI.”


Author and host of Pivot to AI David Gerard joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the growing trend of companies rehiring for roles previously cut under the belief AI could replace jobs.

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