Is AI the new fall guy for layoffs?

In the last few months, there's been a flurry of big companies saying they're laying off employees because AI has made them more productive. But how much of that is actually true?

In this episode, Katty Kay and economist Kathryn Anne Edwards talk about why some companies might be turning to a practice known as 'AI washing', in which they say that AI is the reason for reducing headcount, but in reality they would have done the layoffs anyway.