As workers worry they might are losing their jobs to AI in the future, some experts claim it is already happening.

Instead of letting their employees “quietly quit” employers are “silently firing” or making roles so difficult that workers quit and are subsequently replaced by artificial intelligence.

George Kailas, CEO of Prospero.Ai and Fast Company Contributorclaims that this is why Amazon forces employees to come to the office five days a week, despite the majority of the workforce expressing dissatisfaction with the return-to-the-office policy.

As a result, 73% of workers considered quittinga survey found.

Kailas argues that despite data showing that remote work increases productivity, companies like Amazon are “silently laying off workers” by enforcing such policies, “because the best way to reduce retention while saving on severance of layoffs would be to eliminate remote work,” he wrote. .

“What makes this even more alarming is that we haven’t even scratched the surface of the AI ​​adoption curve,” added Kailas.

While Elon Musk is expecting a complete overhaul of the workforce as a result of AI, experts are not so convinced.

Economist and MIT professor Daron Acemoglu insists that only 5% of jobs can be replaced or assisted by AI in the next 10 years.

“A lot of money will be wasted” he previously told Bloomberg. “You’re not going to get an economic revolution out of the 5%.”

He argued that AI is not yet reliable enough to perform tasks that humans do and predicted that the technology will not be advanced enough anytime soon.

“You need highly reliable information or the ability of these models to faithfully implement certain steps that workers used to do,” Acemoglu continued.

“I can do that in a few places with some human oversight … but in most places I can’t.”

Concerns about an AI work revolution come as Gen Z is fueling another workplace trend called “The Great Outbound.” A cousin of “quiet resignation” and “quiet vacation,” job disengagement refers to a decline in employee engagement due to disgruntled workers.

Survey data from Gallup found a 5% drop in engagement among Gen Z and millennials, and American Staffing Association CEO Richard Wahlquist said Business Insider that approximately three out of 10 employees are not actively engaged at work.

release, on Gallupit also takes a financial hit.

It costs the entire world about $8.8 trillion in productivity, the organization said.