Corporate communications around AI layoffs have historically been oblique — restructurings attributed to 'efficiency,' headcount reductions framed as 'strategic pivots.' Snap's direct attribution to AI-powered operations ends that cover for peer companies. When a major consumer tech firm names AI as the mechanism of a 16-percent workforce cut, every subsequent restructuring in the sector will be read through that frame, whether or not the company uses the same language. The civil challenges Robbins warned about are no longer a forecast about some future labor market — they are a description…