AI layoffs may erase tacit knowledge and reduce workers to database records
curious_vii · x · 2026-07-23
The post argues that treating workers as atomic database records misses the human and organizational cost of AI-driven layoffs.
The reply adds that if CEOs push massive layoffs on the basis of a category error, the long-term damage will be severe: tacit knowledge that lives in relationships and unwritten context will be destroyed. The thread frames the issue as a warning about over-instrumentalizing work through digital exhaust.
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