AI Job Loss Tracker

A shiny new “AI Job Loss Tracker” from the Alliance for Secure AI promises to tally layoffs “explicitly” tied to automation since January 1, 2025, complete with definitions like EXPLICIT, BLAMED, and MIXED. But with the table still “Loading…”, the comments are doing the heavy lifting. One camp calls jobloss.ai a much-needed scoreboard for the AI era. The louder camp? Skeptical—and loud. “Companies botch strategy, then blame the bots,” gripes one user, arguing firms dress up cuts as “AI efficiencies” to butter up Wall Street. Another sees the site as a “brochure” for The Alliance for Secure AI with “AGI weirdo” vibes—AGI meaning the sci‑fi dream of an all‑purpose super-smart AI.

The conspiracy meter spikes when a commenter alleges the site’s creator is a professional lobbyist, fueling whispers that this is less watchdog, more PR. Others pile on about the data: vague job descriptions, corporate “strategic repositioning” mush, and “hard to know what was actually replaced.” Meanwhile, a nostalgia thread begs for a revival of the infamous dot‑com gossip archive Fucked Company—because of course it does. The drama boils down to this: Is this tracker a transparency tool for workers—or a neat excuse machine for CEOs? Until the numbers load, the scoreboard is the discourse, and it’s already on fire.