The Truth About AI Layoffs: 5 Skills That Will Make You Rich in 2026
The Table with Anthony ONeal
The Neatness Network
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🗓️ 15 December 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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The truth about AI layoffs: 2 million jobs will disappear in 2026, but you can double your income if you act now.
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• Why AI is creating more jobs than it’s destroying—and how to get one
• The 5 high-income skills companies are desperate for (no degree needed)
• How to future-proof your career and build generational wealth
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| 0:00.0 | Over 100,000 tech workers were laid off this year. At a time of recording this, we're talking |
| 0:06.8 | about 2025. We're talking about Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, IBM, all cutting jobs. And if you're |
| 0:15.7 | watching this, you might be thinking, Ayo, in 2026, can my job be next? Is AI about to take the seat at my table? |
| 0:29.1 | But here's what the headlines aren't telling you. While jobs are disappearing, yes, I'm going to be honest with you. |
| 0:34.9 | AI job postings are up 25% year over year and |
| 0:40.5 | salaries are hitting $157,000 on average. So what's really happening? Are we losing jobs to AI? |
| 0:50.2 | Or are we just not learning the skills that AI companies are desperate to hire for? |
| 0:58.6 | Today I'm going to be breaking down the real story behind the headlines, the numbers you need to know, and most importantly, how you can get on the winning side of this shift. |
| 1:14.4 | No fluff, no fear, just straight value, straight facts and stats and good information to help you go into 2026 with the correct information to help you |
| 1:23.6 | possibly do this on the side of your full-time job. |
| 1:28.3 | So I want to talk about what actually happened in 2025. |
| 1:32.4 | We saw a layoff wave. |
| 1:35.7 | Over 100,000 take jobs going. |
| 1:37.3 | Amazon, like I said, Microsoft, Meta, IBM, Salesforce. |
| 1:41.2 | All these companies made some major cuts. |
| 1:46.8 | But at the same time, 35,000, right around 445 AI-related jobs were posted in Q1 alone. That was a 25.2 increase, or 25.2% |
| 1:56.7 | increase from the year 2024. And here's the kicker. The median AI salary, watch this, is |
| 2:04.9 | 156,000. Actually, I'm going to round that up to about $157,000 a year. Wages in AI exposed |
| 2:14.2 | industries are rising twice as fast as non-AI sectors, but less than 10% of companies |
| 2:21.9 | are using AI on a regular basis. |
| 2:24.3 | That means pay attention, coming closer, all right? |
| 2:30.3 | That means there's massive room for growth and a massive skills gap. |
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