The vibes are not good in the tech industry. Australia’s own Atlassian sacked 10% of its staff last week. A couple of weeks earlier, fintech giant Block announced almost half its workforce was headed for the chopping block. A few weeks before that, Amazon put 16,000 jobs in the firing line.

The stated reason for all these cuts? Replacing people with AI. And Block chief executive Jack Dorsey says the technology is coming for your job, too: "Within the next year, I believe the majority of companies will reach the same conclusion and make similar structural changes," he told shareholders.

Have we really reached the point where the likes of ChatGPT can put thousands of real humans out of work? As business technology expert Uri Gal writes, it’s a bit more complicated than that – and tech companies may be downsizing their payrolls for more old-fashioned reasons.

There’s no point pretending our kids won’t grow up in this world, but schools and universities are still grappling with how to integrate it (or not). Jason Lodge argues the risk is not cheating, but students’ learning. "AI gives them the illusion of competence," he says, but really it undermines the effort needed for deep learning.

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