meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Marketplace Tech

Bytes: Week in Review - Quantifying AI's impact on job cuts

Marketplace Tech

American Public Media

Technology, News

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

On today's “Tech Bytes: Week in Review,” we discuss federal cybersecurity cutbacks that affected this week’s elections and a caucus of Midwestern states pushing to join the AI boom. Plus, Sens. Josh Hawley and Mark Warner introduced a bipartisan bill requiring some companies to report when AI replaces workers.


Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Axios tech policy reporter Maria Curi about these headlines and more.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Recruitment. In finance, it can feel transactional, driven by numbers, not by nuance,

0:09.2

lacking the personal touch that fuels performance. LHH believes it should be more, by connecting

0:16.6

people to opportunity, not just skills to roles. Beautiful things happen in finance. A leader

0:24.3

drives growth. A team finds clarity and complexity. The people you hire become the people you rely on,

0:33.0

making 90,000 hours in a career well invested.

0:41.0

Recruitment, development, career transition.

0:46.0

LH, a beautiful working world for the world of finance.

0:49.7

Get the recruitment solutions your business needs to move forward.

0:59.6

Start today at LHH.com slash beautiful. No one's totally sure what AI is doing to the job market,

1:04.5

but there's a bipartisan push to find out more.

1:08.0

From American Public Media, this is Marketplace Tech.

1:11.1

I'm Megan McCarty Carrino.

1:22.0

Senators Josh Hawley and Mark Warner reached across the aisle this week to introduce a bill that would require some

1:29.1

companies to tell the government if they're replacing workers with AI. That's just one of the

1:35.2

topics we'll be digging into on today's Marketplace Techbytes week in review. Plus, how federal

1:41.2

cutbacks to cybersecurity efforts affected this week's elections, and how a group of states in the middle of the country is advocating to get in on the AI boom.

1:52.0

But first, back to that Senate proposal, the AI-related Job Impacts Clarity Act, or Erjica.

2:00.2

I guess it doesn't have a cute acronym. Not only would it require

2:03.4

companies and the federal government to disclose AI-related layoffs, but also any upskilling

2:09.4

or retraining they offer workers for AI. Maria Curie is here to help us get into all this.

2:15.4

She's a tech policy reporter at Axios. I think what it really shows is that we don't

2:20.3

actually have the granular, high quality data that we need to actually know how AI is going to

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from American Public Media, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of American Public Media and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.