CEO of Anthropic Warns That AI Will Destroy Huge Proportion of Well-Paying Jobs

Artificial intelligence could wipe out half of all entry-level white collar jobs — if Anthropic cofounder Dario Amodei is to be believed, at least. Speaking with Axios this week, Amodei claimed that the type of AI his company is building will have the capacity to unleash "unimaginable possibilities" onto the world, both good and bad. Unsurprisingly, the billionaire tech entrepreneur has white collar job loss at the top of his mind. Amodei foresees the labor crisis unfolding in four steps. First, companies like OpenAI, Google, and Amodei's own Anthropic will work toward large language models (LLMs) that can "meet and beat human performance with more and more tasks." As this happens, the government, anxious about China and widespread labor turmoil, will do nothing to "regulate AI" or warn the public about its potential. Your average worker, "unaware of the growing power of AI and its threat to their jobs," has no idea what's going on. Suddenly, "almost overnight," businesses flip a ... Read full article.