The pandemic-era boom for IT talent and the employee-friendly market have ended, the daily said, with artificial intelligence taking over tasks—especially for entry-level programmers.
It added that Western tech firms openly link some job cuts to AI deployments.
In Poland, most IT workers do not yet see AI as a direct threat. A ManpowerGroup survey cited by the paper found only 23% of specialists fear being replaced by new technologies, with many more pointing to competition from cheaper foreign markets and using AI mainly as a productivity aid.
Even so, “Rzeczpospolita” said recruitment data show AI already weighing on the domestic IT services market, particularly for programmers. Despite rising revenues at IT firms and improving conditions, job postings have not climbed; demand for “juniors” is falling as AI tools absorb their duties.
Separately, Financial Times columnist Marietje Schaake wrote on Thursday that AI could become a key card in U.S. foreign policy and warned of “American AI colonialism.”
Schaake, of Stanford University’s Institute for Human-Centered AI and its Cyber Policy Center, said trade wars under U.S. President Donald Trump show how dependencies can become weapons and described the White House’s trade approach as zero-sum.
She argued the U.S. AI Action Plan could yield “undisputed” technological dominance.
Since tariffs took effect on April 2—proclaimed by Trump as a “day of liberation”—the administration has pursued an aggressive push for concessions from partners, straining decades-old trade integration and supply chains.
(jh)
Source: Business Insider, Rzeczpospolita