{"id":1009323,"date":"2026-05-22T10:28:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T04:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1009323"},"modified":"2026-05-22T10:43:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T05:13:02","slug":"sridhar-vembu-flags-ai-reality-check-says-companies-use-ai-as-convenient-explanation-for-layoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/22\/sridhar-vembu-flags-ai-reality-check-says-companies-use-ai-as-convenient-explanation-for-layoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Sridhar Vembu flags AI reality check, says companies use AI as \u2018convenient explanation\u2019 for layoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu raised concerns about the global economy and warned that the world may be entering a difficult phase despite the rapid rise of artificial intelligence (AI). In a post shared on X, he questioned why even college students in the US have started showing resistance towards AI despite the country leading the global AI race. According to him, the problem is being worsened by companies increasingly linking layoffs and cost-cutting measures to AI adoption. <\/p>\n<p>He wrote that companies often blame job losses on AI because it helps them appear \u201cvisionary\u201d while also providing a convenient explanation for workforce reductions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu raised concerns about the global economy and warned that the world may be entering a difficult phase despite the rapid rise of artificial intelligence (AI). In a post shared on X, he questioned why even college students in the US have started showing resistance towards AI despite the country leading the global AI race. According to him, the problem is being worsened by companies increasingly linking layoffs and cost-cutting measures to AI adoption. He wrote that companies often blame job losses on AI because it helps them appear \u201cvisionary\u201d while also providing a convenient explanation for [&hellip;]<\/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":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1009323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009323","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=1009323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1009324,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009323\/revisions\/1009324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1009323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1009323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1009323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}