Who Gets the 750,000 New AI Jobs? Mark Cuban Has a Warning

Employers have cited artificial intelligence (AI) in more than twice as many US job cuts this year as in all of 2025. Billionaire investor Mark Cuban, however, says workers are watching the wrong threat. Cubans argument shifts the focus from the technology to the people using it. Cuban Puts the Job Risk on AI Skills The anxiety has numbers behind it. US employers cited AI in 120,136 announced job cuts through September. That is about 21% of all cuts, Challenger, Gray Christmas reported. Cuban sees the threat differently and argued that the risk comes from other people. AI wont take your job. Someone who knows how to use AI better than you, will take your job, he said. Survey data supports his view. Gallup found tech workers who used AI less than monthly faced 3 times the layoff risk of monthly users. Overall, 62% of laid-off workers used AI once a year or less, compared with 50% of employed workers. Still, only 1% of laid-off workers named AI as the main cause. Nonfarm payrolls rose 29,000 in September, and the unemployment rate reached 4.2%, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported. The BLS releases its October jobs report on November 6.