Klarna freezes hiring as chief bets AI can do the job instead

This is a weird article.

For one, I think this is super easy to say this if maybe you aren't hiring anyway for other reasons, and there is nothing other than the non-engineering hiring freeze that indicates that they are placing meaningful bets on this outcome. Where is the mention of the well-staffed R&D effort to bring this into reality?

And "AI" has just become a super annoying catch-all that allows people to perform a sort of sleight-of-hand that they wouldn't otherwise be able to get away with. "Look here not here" and the audience is mesmerized by the possible economic windfall that our future robotic overlords might grant them.

You know a company is pathetic and failing when it has to resort to silly publicity stunts to be talked about instead of just having a product people care about and use.

This company is such trash. I had to call all my financial institutions and prevent any klarna charges because of how they enable fraud.

I suspect the fools making these decisions will the first to be replaced with AI.

Good luck with that.