{"id":994074,"date":"2026-02-20T11:40:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T06:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=994074"},"modified":"2026-02-20T11:40:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T06:10:33","slug":"openai-ceo-sam-altman-calls-out-tech-companies-for-mass-layoffs-says-cant-blame-everything-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/20\/openai-ceo-sam-altman-calls-out-tech-companies-for-mass-layoffs-says-cant-blame-everything-on\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI CEO Sam Altman calls out tech companies for mass layoffs; says: Can&#8217;t blame everything on&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s clothing\u2014a practice he called &#8220;AI washing.&#8221; It&#8217;s a distinction that matters, Altman said, because it&#8217;s muddying the public&#8217;s understanding of what the technology can actually do today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know what the exact percentage is, but there&#8217;s some AI washing where people are blaming AI for layoffs that they would otherwise do, and then there&#8217;s some real displacement by AI of different kinds of jobs,&#8221; 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s clothing\u2014a practice he called &#8220;AI washing.&#8221; It&#8217;s a distinction that matters, Altman said, because it&#8217;s muddying the public&#8217;s understanding of what the technology can actually do today. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know what the exact percentage is, but there&#8217;s some AI washing where people are blaming AI for layoffs that they would otherwise do, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-994074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994074","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=994074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}