A new study directly contradicts the layoff narrative pushed by Dario Amodei and Jack Dorsey: heavy AI adoption inside companies is linked to more hiring, not fewer jobs. Dorsey cited AI as justification for cutting 40% of Block's staff. The data says that logic doesn't hold.
The study's value is not just its conclusion. The methodology and the specific categories of roles affected, which companies are hiring more versus less, and how adoption intensity correlates with headcount changes are the details that make this worth reading in full.
This is an early data point, not a settled debate. But it puts a number behind the counter-argument, and that changes how the next round of AI-driven layoff announcements should be read.
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