Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas faces backlash after saying ‘AI layoffs are fine because people hate their jobs, anyway’

Aravind Srinivas, Perplexity AI CEO, is now under fire for advancing the opinion that people should embrace being replaced by artificial intelligence since they don’t like their jobs anyway. The co-founder of Perplexity further added  to the sardonic comment that the jarring shift in how work gets done will lead to a “glorious future” and everyone should be happy about.

“The reality is most people don’t enjoy their jobs,” the executive said on the All-In podcast, in an episode that was published Monday.

Listeners were quick to react to the controversial opinion and voice outrage. A leading voice among the critics argued that Srinivas was out of touch with everyday people who have been struggling to make ends meet after getting laid off.

“A man worth millions just told the single mother who lost her job that she should be grateful because now she can start a business using his product and called her unemployment a glorious future,” one commenter wrote on X. “This is what happens when you’ve never needed a paycheck to keep the lights on.”

Recent months have been marred by a number of large companies announcing brutal layoffs. The likes of companies such as Amazon and Block have blamed AI for driving such massive changes.

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