TechCrunch Mobility: The AI skills arms race is coming for automotive
Key takeaways
- Welcome back to Tech Crunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation.
- There is a bit of a theme emerging in transportation — and really every industry: AI is creating jobs for some at the loss of others.
- General Motors, for instance, laid off more than 10% of its IT department, or about 600 salaried employees — in a deliberate skills swap.
Why this matters: a development in AI with implications for how people work, create, and decide.
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There is a bit of a theme emerging in transportation — and really every industry: AI is creating jobs for some at the loss of others.
General Motors, for instance, laid off more than 10% of its IT department, or about 600 salaried employees — in a deliberate skills swap. This won’t translate into a one-to-one exchange, which means there will likely be a net-negative job loss. But GM insists it is hiring and those layoffs have made room for it to recruit IT people with AI-focused backgrounds.