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首席执行官表示，人工智能是金融科技公司 Block 裁员的关键驱动因素
金融科技公司 Block 的首席执行官宣布将裁员 10,000 多名员工中的 4,000 多人，进行重组以充分利用人工智能的应用，周五盘前交易中该公司股价飙升超过 20%。
来源:PBS _经济BANGKOK (AP) — Shares in the financial technology company Block soared more than 20% in premarket trading Friday after its CEO announced it was laying off more than 4,000 of its 10,000 plus employees, reconfiguring to capitalize on its use of artificial intelligence.
"The core thesis is simple. Intelligence tools have changed what it means to build and run a company," Jack Dorsey said in a letter to shareholders in Block, the parent company to online payment platforms such as Square and Cash App. “一个小得多的团队，使用我们正在构建的工具，可以做得更多，做得更好，”他说。
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多尔西明确将人工智能视为此举背后的关键驱动力的评论也发布在他共同创立的 X（即 Twitter）公司上。分析师称，裁员将提高 Block 的盈利能力和效率的说法导致投资者纷纷买入。
Block 的股价周四在公布收益前上涨 5% 至 54.53 美元。他们在盘后交易中飙升至近 69 美元。这家移动支付服务提供商公布第四季度毛利润同比增长 24%。
"For years, we have debated whether AI would dent jobs at the margin. Now we have a public case study in which the CEO explicitly says that intelligence tools have changed what it means to build and run a company," Stephen Innes of SPI Asset Management said in a commentary.
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"Other large employers have announced tens of thousands of cuts in recent months. Some have downplayed the AI link. Block did not," he said.
A global technology company founded in 2009, San Francisco-based Block operates in the United States, Canada, parts of Europe, Australia and Japan.
在 Twitter 上的一篇帖子中，多尔西概述了公司支持被解雇人员的各种方式。他说，对于海外员工，条款可能会有所不同。