Why Jack Dorsey Thinks AI Will Replace Middle Managers | CoinDesk Daily
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🗓️ 1 April 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Which jobs will get hit in the AI revolution and Bitcoin is on a historic six-month losing streak. |
| 0:06.2 | This is Coin Desk Daily. I'm Jen Sanassi. |
| 0:14.3 | Jack Dorsey says the middle manager's job is about to be replaced by artificial intelligence. |
| 0:19.3 | The block CEO argues that corporate hierarchy has always existed to solve one problem, |
| 0:24.1 | routing information through organizations too large for any single person to oversee. |
| 0:28.9 | But now this is something that AI can address. |
| 0:31.8 | Jack Dorsey says his company's decision to cut approximately 4,000 of its 10,000 employees |
| 0:36.7 | was not cost reduction, but a permanent |
| 0:39.1 | restructuring to replace middle managers with AI. However, current and former block employees |
| 0:44.0 | are pushing back on this vision. They told The Guardian that roughly 95% of AI generated |
| 0:49.0 | code changes still require a human modification and that AI is nowhere near ready to lead |
| 0:54.1 | in highly regulated |
| 0:55.1 | areas like banking and money transfers. |
| 0:58.0 | The New Hampshire Business Finance Authority is set to issue the first rated Bitcoin-backed |
| 1:01.9 | bond of its kind, signaling a new intersection of crypto and public finance. |
| 1:06.6 | The bonds received a provisional BA2 rating from Moody's, which places them two notches |
| 1:10.2 | below investment grade. Moody's has said its rating reflects risks associated with the transaction's |
| 1:15.5 | collateral structure and operation, including Bitcoin's volatility. The largest crypto by market |
| 1:21.1 | cap is currently hovering around $68,500 and saw six consecutive months of losses. |
| 1:27.0 | The last time Bitcoin saw six-month losing streak was back in early 2019, a period that |
| 1:31.7 | was immediately followed by five straight months of massive gains. |
| 1:35.3 | And the Australian government passed its first comprehensive regulatory framework for digital |
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