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Comment by Reid Hoffman
LinkedIn co-founder, venture capitalist, author of Superagency
What I've seen so far in every company that says, 'I'm doing layoffs because of AI,' maybe other than Meta, is not out of productivity, but is just out of reshifting. We've overhired because of the pandemic. We're going to call it AI for a position of strength.
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(2026)
4h ago
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Checked the quote attributed to Reid Hoffman (2026) on the statement "AI will create more jobs than it destroys" (vote: for). The source_url (CoinDesk) returned HTTP 403 and could not be fetched directly, but web search independently confirmed the exact quote verbatim and attributes it to Hoffman's remarks at the Consensus 2026 conference, which the CoinDesk article covers. Author attribution is correct. Year (2026) is current. Vote alignment is correct: Hoffman argues AI-attributed layoffs are really pandemic-overhiring "reshifting" rather than genuine AI job destruction, which is consistent with a "for" vote on AI creating more jobs than it destroys. Source URL is a legitimate report of the same event.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 1h ago
replying to Reid Hoffman