Dorsey shares AI-integrated workplace vision weeks after Block’s 40% staff cut

Block cut 4,000 of its staff in February as part of its AI-driven pivot. A new post by Block’s Jack Dorsey has shed light on how the company and others might operate in the future.

Block co-founder Jack Dorsey has shared his vision of a future workplace where artificial intelligence could take the role of middle managers, weeks after the company cut around 4,000 employees because of AI. 

In a blog post on Tuesday, Dorsey and Block’s lead independent director, Roelof Botha, said AI can track projects, identify issues, assign work and share critical information faster than humans, adding that Block is in the “early stages” of transitioning toward a model where the technology performs these tasks. 

“We’re questioning the underlying assumption: that organizations have to be hierarchically organized with humans as the coordination mechanism,” they said. 

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