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Key points

• •Over 160 companies in New York state have filed notices of mass layoffs since last March, but none attributed these job cuts to technological innovation or automation.
• •New York State added an option to WARN forms asking companies to indicate if AI was the cause of layoffs, but no company has checked this box.
• •Companies like Amazon and Goldman Sachs, which have invested in AI, have made significant layoffs in New York, but cited economic reasons rather than AI in their official filings.
• •Although some companies internally acknowledge AI's potential to improve productivity and reduce headcount, they are hesitant to admit it publicly in official layoff documents.
• •The New York data suggests that companies may be avoiding linking layoffs to AI, or that the impact of AI on employment may not be as significant as some fear.