00:00General Motors, Ford and Stellantis have together eliminated more than 20,000 U.S. salaried jobs
00:06from their recent employment peaks, a 19 percent reduction of their combined white-collar workforces
00:12and the cuts are now accelerating, driven increasingly by artificial intelligence.
00:17GM led the reductions, cutting approximately 11,000 salaried positions from a 2022 peak of 58,000,
00:25driven in part by the wind-down of its cruise robo-taxi business, and just last week announced
00:31another 500 to 600 IT job cuts in Texas and Michigan. Ford CEO Jim Farley has been the most
00:38direct about where this is heading, saying publicly that artificial intelligence is going to replace
00:43literally half of all white-collar workers in the U.S. The three automakers still have more than 2,000
00:50open U.S. positions, but nearly 400 of them involve AI, with GM alone seeking more than 250 AI-related
00:58roles. So the message from Detroit is clear, the jobs of the future are looking very different
01:04from the jobs of the past.
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