Altman: 'AI Washing' Masks Job Loss // AIDRAN

Altman's acknowledgment that companies falsely attribute layoffs to AI arrived not as a rebuke of corporate behavior but as a taxonomy. He named two categories — — and confirmed the second will accelerate. What he did not provide, and what the framing structurally cannot provide, is any mechanism for a displaced worker to know which category applies to them. The acknowledgment is analytically precise and practically inert.

Sam Altman Named 'AI Washing' — and Confirmed the Real Thing Is Coming

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