Beyond the layoffs - will companies live to regret their AI-related job cuts? (Spoiler - they just might...)

All too many employers are placing their businesses at strategic risk by cutting headcount before being sure AI can perform the tasks they need it to, an AI expert has warned.

Shomron Jacob is head of Applied Machine Learning and Platform at enterprise AI applications platform provider, iterate.ai. He believes the big question organizations should ask themselves today is whether they are dealing with job cuts “strategically or reactively”. He explains:

The pattern is real: companies are restructuring workflows around AI capabilities, which inevitably changes headcount requirements. The critical question isn't whether this is happening, but whether companies are doing it strategically or reactively. From what I've seen evaluating enterprise AI strategies, most organizations are making these decisions without proper readiness assessments. They're cutting roles before they've validated that AI can actually perform those functions reliably.

But this approach will inevitably create “strategic risk” for ...