Google Shifts Towards AI, Cuts Thousands of Ad Sales Jobs to Boost Profits
• Google replacing some human sales staff with AI tools that can automatically create and optimize ads
• Up to half of Google's 30,000-employee ad division was dedicated to now-automated work
• Cutting human jobs aims to increase profit margins by cutting costs
• AI job automation is affecting many industries - IBM, Axel Springer also replacing thousands of human jobs
• Low-level customer service jobs especially vulnerable, as AI can perform tasks for fraction of human cost