{"id":203424,"date":"2025-01-09T13:22:25","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T19:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/ceo-who-bragged-about-replacing-workers-with-ai-now-distressed-that-ai-will-replace-his-job-too"},"modified":"2025-01-09T13:22:25","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T19:22:25","slug":"ceo-who-bragged-about-replacing-workers-with-ai-now-distressed-that-ai-will-replace-his-job-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/ceo-who-bragged-about-replacing-workers-with-ai-now-distressed-that-ai-will-replace-his-job-too","title":{"rendered":"CEO Who Bragged About Replacing Workers With AI Now Distressed That AI Will Replace His Job Too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ceo-who-bragged-about-replacing-workers-with-ai-now-distressed-that-ai-will-replace-his-job-too3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last month, Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/klarna-ceo-ai-replacing-workers\" class=\"\">boasted that<\/a> he hadn\u2019t hired anyone in a year as a result of his company embracing AI.<\/p>\n<p>Klarna\u2019s workforce had shrunk by about 22 percent since doubling down roughly a year ago. Meanwhile, the company has amassed a valuation of <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/swedish-fintech-klarna-files-widely-060653270.html\" class=\"\">well over $14 billion<\/a>, in what Siemiatkowski frames as a financially successful bid to cash in on the hype surrounding AI.<\/p>\n<p>The fintech company, which offers \u201cbuy now, pay later\u201d services for the e-commerce industry, made a big fuss about its OpenAI ChatGPT integration, gushing that its AI assistant could do the work of \u201c700 full-time agents\u201d in a <a href=\"https:\/\/openai.com\/index\/klarna\/\" class=\"\">February press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski boasted that he hadn\u2019t hired anyone in a year as a result of his company embracing AI. Klarna\u2019s workforce had shrunk by about 22 percent since doubling down roughly a year ago. Meanwhile, the company has amassed a valuation of well over $14 billion, in what Siemiatkowski frames as [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}