The AI Job Crisis Is Being Built, Not Born

The light is shining through the windows of what looks like a well-appointed, book-lined apartment where Dario Amodei, the chief executive of AI giant Anthropic, is giving an interview. He smiles and laughs at the interviewer's jokes, giving the impression of an approachable, amiable, ever-so-slightly unkempt scientist.

But when the questions turn to AI’s impact on humanity, Amodei’s demeanor shifts. He says that while he is not a doom-and-gloomer, he is certainly worried. Previous disruptions took place over longer timescales, and he frets that the speed and scope of this one will make it much harder to manage. His concern “is that the normal adaptive mechanisms will be overwhelmed” and that more than half of entry-level white-collar jobs are at risk.

As he speaks, Amodei sounds like a physician delivering a difficult prognosis: sober and compassionate, very concerned about the patient’s well-being, but ultimately helpless in the face of death’s inevitable arrival. Except Amodei is not just some powerless observer. He is the chief executive of one of the companies that is doing the most to bring about this jobless future. He is more architect than bystander, but you would never know it from the tone of his public utterances.

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