From PBS NewsHour.

You’ve probably seen the headlines about thousands of corporate jobs cuts over the last month, and subsequent videos online proclaiming it’s the beginning of artificial intelligence taking our jobs.

But, there is a lot we don’t know. While the government shutdown has ended after 43 days — the longest ever – the last jobs or unemployment data we have is from August.

This, as outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas said planned layoffs in October topped 150,000.

So, is AI really taking our jobs? PBS News’ Tim McPhillips spoke to Erik Brynjolfsson, the Director of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab to break down 3 things to know about this current wave of corporate layoffs.

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