Dorsey’s Job Cuts at Block Arouse Suspicions of AI-Washing

Mar 2nd, 2026Dorsey’s Job Cuts at Block Arouse Suspicions of AI-WashingWhen Block laid off nearly half its staff last week, co-founder Jack Dorsey offered a seemingly simple explanation: artificial intelligence was allowing the company to do more with fewer employees. The announcement, though, landed at the center of a complex debate over AI and the future of work: on one side, genuine fear that the technology will displace jobs at an unprecedented pace; on the other, deep cynicism that companies are exploiting that fear to dress up old-fashioned cost-cutting as technological futurism. Marcelo P. Lima, Founder and Managing Partner at Heller House, joins Bloomberg Businessweek Daily to discuss. Lima has been a vocal critic of Dorsey's management style at Block, and posted soon after the layoff announcement that the reduction in force "is the new Citrini fake narrative." Lima speaks with Carol Massar and Tim Stenovec.Duration:4:08Israel Opens Up New Front in War With HezbollahDuration:10:29Secretary Hegseth Says This Will Not Be an Endless WarDuration:4:13Oil and Gasoline Prices Spike as War Disrupts ShipmentsDuration:3:55Jeff Currie Says Risks to Energy Supply Have Never Been So HighDuration:3:06Equities, Treasuries Fall as US-Iran Conflict Rattles MarketsThe Opening TradeDuration:1:26Iran Does Have Long-Strike Capabilities, Hegseth SaysDuration:1:04Explosions in Beirut as Israel Attacks Hezbollah TargetsDuration:1:04Travel Chaos Widens as Airlines Cancel FlightsDuration:1:35Netanyahu Says Israeli Strikes on Iran to ‘Increase’Daybreak: EuropeDuration:4:03Oil Surges as Strait of Hormuz Traffic All But HaltedDuration:0:39Trump Announces First US Fatalities of Iran OperationsDuration:2:59China Calls US-Israel Strikes on Iran 'Unacceptable'Available on:Listen onApple TVListen onRokuListen onSamsung TVListen onFire TVListen onAndroid TVListen onRakuten TVListen onHaystack NewsWatch BTV in your area:Channel Finder