The AI Layoff Trap: Or, How We Learned to Mistake Human Beings for Expenses (opens in new tab)

Long before artificial intelligence arrived, America had already developed a habit. We started describing human beings the way accountants describe office furniture. Workers became labor costs. Patients became utilization rates. Students became performance metrics. Citizens became demographics. Customers became eyeballs. Somewhere along the way, the language of management escaped the conference room and began colonizing everything else. This happens so gradually that nobody notices. One day y...