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Elevate Before You Eliminate: Firms Should Redesign High-Risk Roles Before Any AI-Attributed Layoffs

2026-04-20

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This position paper argues for a rebuttable presumption agains AI-attributed layoffs. The central claim is that many roles now labeled “highly exposed” still contain substantial elevation space: when AI compresses routine substrate, it often expands the human layer of judgment, exception handling, coordination, trust, and accountability. We sharpen that claim in a more dynamic way than a fixed- ceiling reading all...

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f1436019-9269-5ccd-b81b-48ebb54b1a8c
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10.20944/preprints202604.1354.v1
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