{"id":16833,"date":"2026-02-13T12:52:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T12:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/TheNextWeb=1415458"},"modified":"2026-02-13T12:52:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T12:52:15","slug":"the-people-we-left-behind-tech-layoffs-ai-hype-and-a-misplaced-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/?p=16833","title":{"rendered":"The people we left behind: Tech layoffs, AI hype, and a misplaced future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/img-cdn.tnwcdn.com\/image?fit=796%2C417&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn0.tnwcdn.com%2Fwp-content%2Fblogs.dir%2F1%2Ffiles%2F2026%2F02%2FTech-layoffs-AI-hype-and-a-misplaced-future-1.png&#038;signature=6c110614f969612e432f6da749ef0850\" width=\"796\" height=\"417\"><br \/>If you opened a tech newsletter or even the internet in early 2026 and thought you\u2019d stepped into a dystopian screenplay, or you are the main character in one of Isaac Asimov\u2019s writings, you wouldn\u2019t be alone. Headlines trumpet layoffs, companies blame \u201cAI transformation,\u201d and somewhere in the background, billionaires cheer hot-off-the-press artificial intelligence strategies. Here\u2019s the uncomfortable truth: people are still losing their jobs, while AI gets most of the credit. According to the most recent tracking data, the pace of layoffs in tech remains high in 2026. Outplacement firm Challenger, Gray &amp; Christmas reported that U.S. employers announced&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/the-people-we-left-behind-tech-layoffs-ai-hype-and-a-misplaced-future?utm_source=social&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=profeed\">This story continues<\/a> at The Next Web <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/the-people-we-left-behind-tech-layoffs-ai-hype-and-a-misplaced-future\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you opened a tech newsletter or even the internet in early 2026 and thought you\u2019d stepped into a dystopian screenplay, or you are the main character in one of Isaac Asimov\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16833"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}