{"id":1001109,"date":"2026-04-04T08:41:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T03:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1001109"},"modified":"2026-04-04T10:02:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T04:32:38","slug":"ai-will-cause-waves-of-layoffs-in-repetitive-manual-jobs-qed-investors-nigel-morris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/04\/ai-will-cause-waves-of-layoffs-in-repetitive-manual-jobs-qed-investors-nigel-morris\/","title":{"rendered":"AI will cause waves of layoffs in repetitive manual jobs: QED Investors\u2019 Nigel Morris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>QED Investors\u2019 cofounder and managing partner Nigel Morris expects that artificial intelligence (AI) will have a significant impact on employment in the near term. Those performing repetitive manual tasks will be the hardest hit, he added. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe population that is doing manual repetitive tasks is going to shrink dramatically. I think we are going to see waves of layoffs occurring. I was a little nervous about the US economy even before the war that started a month ago. Unemployment is creeping up,\u201d Morris told ET in an exclusive interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QED Investors\u2019 cofounder and managing partner Nigel Morris expects that artificial intelligence (AI) will have a significant impact on employment in the near term. Those performing repetitive manual tasks will be the hardest hit, he added. \u201cThe population that is doing manual repetitive tasks is going to shrink dramatically. I think we are going to see waves of layoffs occurring. I was a little nervous about the US economy even before the war that started a month ago. Unemployment is creeping up,\u201d Morris told ET in an exclusive interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}