Cartoon shows boss reassuring fired employee he is not being replaced with AI
Summary
- A daily cartoon published on November 12 shows a boss telling a dismissed employee he is being replaced, but not with AI.
- The cartoon was drawn by Brendan Loper, whose work appears frequently in the magazine's pages.
- Loper's cartoons have been exhibited at galleries including David Zwirner.
Reactions
- In the cartoon, a boss tells a dismissed employee, 'We're replacing you—but don't worry, not with A.I.'
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Daily Cartoon: Thursday, November 12th
newyorker.com· 2d
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‘It’s like the wild west’: how AI has rocked the literary worldtheguardian.com· 13h
The Guardian reports how AI has unsettled publishing: scandals have hit several writers accused of using AI — all of them authors of colour, while a white author's disclosed AI use went unpunished — and Coral Hart says she has written 370 novels with AI under 21 pen names. The article argues accusations are nearly impossible to disprove, notes a $1.5bn Anthropic settlement, and says publishers have yet to issue clear AI policies.
Daily Cartoon: Friday, November 13th
‘They’ve cut all entry-level jobs’: unlikely seaside town on frontline of AI threatThe Guardian examines how Bournemouth, once an unlikely finance hub built on thousands of banking jobs since the 1980s 'big bang', now sits on the frontline of AI-driven cuts, with Barclays announcing 5,000 job cuts and Standard Chartered planning to slash 7,000 roles. Locals including Unite's Caren Evans, who calls AI the biggest threat to financial workers since 2008, and Dorset Chamber president Gareth Sherwood, who urges government contingency planning, warn entry-level and back-office jobs are at risk.
The job market is tough for young people. Older workers are thriving.washingtonpost.com· 3d
A Washington Post analysis of Stanford and ADP data finds employment for Americans 30 and younger has dropped since ChatGPT debuted in late 2022 in AI-exposed office jobs such as software development, sales and accounting, while employment for people 35 and older climbed more than 7 percent in those occupations. The article says some evidence suggests AI is turning experience into an advantage by automating entry-level roles — Grindr's chief executive says AI helped him shrink his staff to about 172 while revenue nearly tripled — though economists debate other explanations, and experts worry the shift could hollow out the future job market.
‘AI rebounding’: Nearly 20% of U.S. workers replaced by AI are being asked back—now they’re demanding higher pay, job security and AI transparency | Fortunefortune.com· 5d
A Fortune article reports on "AI rebounding" — SHL research finding that nearly one in five U.S. workers said their employer replaced them with AI and later asked them back, with many demanding higher pay, job security, and AI transparency. It cites Klarna rehiring customer service agents and Ford hiring 350 engineers after AI quality tools underperformed.
Remember When Bosses Were Forcing Their Workers to Use AI? They're Now Realizing They Made a Huge Mistakefuturism.com· 7d
A Futurism article says bosses who pushed AI on workers are regretting it, citing a Leadership Quarterly study led by Samuel Meyers of Hebrew University that found employees who use tools like ChatGPT earn far less supervisor trust — 24 percent versus 68 percent — even where AI use is encouraged. Coauthor Yochanan Bigman warns that adopting AI is a psychological and managerial challenge too.
The New York Times Doesn’t Understand AI's Role in Suppressing Wagesgizmodo.com· 8d
Matt Novak's Gizmodo article argues the New York Times misses that artificial intelligence may be suppressing wages — weakening workers' bargaining power — long before it shows in unemployment numbers, faulting Ben Casselman's piece on AI and jobs for never mentioning the word "wages." He cites October's better-than-expected 165,000 jobs, wages up just 3.1% against 3.7% inflation, a Boston Fed study on job fears, and JPMorgan's David Kelly telling CNBC workers "don't have the guts... to ask for a wage increase."
Fearing AI disruption, white-collar workers are quitting their jobsThe Guardian's feature reports that white-collar workers, spooked by AI, are voluntarily abandoning careers: AI researcher Mrinank Sharma quit Anthropic for a poetry degree, warning in a resignation letter of a world "in peril", while others left public relations for graduate study, software engineering for a police department, and advertising for acting. Workers say AI has changed their jobs overnight, and though economic data shows no AI job losses — and Dario Amodei's predicted displacement of half of entry-level white-collar jobs has yet to materialize — economist Brendan Moore says the fear itself could yet disrupt the economy.
AI in the workplace is nearly 3 times more likely to take a woman’s job as a man’s, UN report finds | FortuneA report released 20 May 2025 by the UN's International Labour Organization and Poland's National Research Institute found women are nearly three times as likely as men to have their jobs automated by AI, with the highest-risk jobs making up 9.6% of women's jobs in higher-income countries versus 3.5% of men's. Sasha Rogelberg reports for Fortune that clerical and administrative work, mostly held by women, is most exposed, and Harvard Business School professor Rembrand Koning says women use AI 25% less than men and that workplace leaders, not women, must make the technology accessible.
AI threatens one in four jobs – but transformation, not replacement, is the real riskun.org· 1y
A joint ILO-NASK study finds that one in four jobs worldwide is exposed to generative AI, with women and clerical workers facing the highest risk of their roles being transformed rather than eliminated — the authors write that few jobs are fully automatable and that job transformation is the likeliest impact. The International Labour Organization urges governments, employers, and workers' organisations to act decisively, stressing digital skills training, inclusive social dialogue, and equitable access so lower-exposure regions are not left behind.
