{"id":22181,"date":"2026-03-03T16:37:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T15:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/can-ai-do-40-of-your-job-blocks-jack-dorsey-thinks-so\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T16:37:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T15:37:38","slug":"can-ai-do-40-of-your-job-blocks-jack-dorsey-thinks-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/can-ai-do-40-of-your-job-blocks-jack-dorsey-thinks-so\/","title":{"rendered":"Can AI do 40% of your job? Block\u2019s Jack Dorsey thinks so"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Dorsey to cut 4,000 workers at Block amid AI advances \u2013 but specters such as weak crypto market haunt company<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/jack-dorsey\">Jack Dorsey<\/a> cited <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/artificialintelligenceai\">AI<\/a> as the driving force behind cutting 40% of his company\u2019s employees, but other factors such as a weak crypto market, overstaffing and a declining stock price may also have motivated the move.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the financial technology company Block announced that it would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/feb\/27\/block-ai-layoffs-jack-dorsey\">lay off<\/a> 4,000 of its 10,000 workers. Dorsey, Block\u2019s CEO, said in a letter to shareholders that advances in AI \u201chave changed what it means to build and run a company\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/mar\/03\/jack-dorsey-block-ai-worker-jobs\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/452f14b2d7a74dfd5acba8397f4e16b2c0b5f994\/745_39_3437_2749\/master\/3437.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=37147cbc45735976ada6fc7abd1e4abf\" title=\"Can AI do 40% of your job? Block\u2019s Jack Dorsey thinks so\" \/>Jack Dorsey to cut 4,000 workers at Block amid AI advances \u2013 but specters such as weak crypto market haunt company<br \/>\nJack Dorsey cited AI as the driving force behind cutting 40% of his company\u2019s employees, but other factors such as a weak crypto market, overstaffing and a declining stock price may also have motivated the move.<br \/>\nLast week, the financial technology company Block announced that it would lay off 4,000 of its 10,000 workers. Dorsey, Block\u2019s CEO, said in a letter to shareholders that advances in AI \u201chave changed what it means to build and run a company\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Dorsey to cut 4,000 workers at Block amid AI advances \u2013 but specters such as weak crypto market haunt company Jack Dorsey cited AI as the driving force behind cutting 40% of his company\u2019s employees, but other factors such as a weak crypto market, overstaffing and a declining stock price may also have motivated &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/can-ai-do-40-of-your-job-blocks-jack-dorsey-thinks-so\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Can AI do 40% of your job? Block\u2019s Jack Dorsey thinks so<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":22182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22181"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}