OpenAI CEO Sam Altman calls out tech companies for mass layoffs; says: Can’t blame everything on…

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has called out a growing corporate trend of blaming artificial intelligence for layoffs that have little to do with the technology itself. Altman says while AI is genuinely displacing some jobs, a portion of companies are simply dressing up routine cost-cutting in AI’s clothing—a practice he called “AI washing.” It’s a distinction that matters, Altman said, because it’s muddying the public’s understanding of what the technology can actually do today.

“I don’t know what the exact percentage is, but there’s some AI washing where people are blaming AI for layoffs that they would otherwise do, and then there’s some real displacement by AI of different kinds of jobs,” Sam Altman told told CNBC-TV18, on the sidelines of the India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi. The real disruption, Altman added, is still on its way.