Dario Amodei, CEO of leading artificial intelligence startup Anthropic, warns that AI may eliminate half of all entry-level white-collar jobs and spike unemployment within the next five years if lawmakers and companies don’t do anything about it now.
“Most of them are unaware that this is about to happen,” Amodei told Axios. “It sounds crazy, and people just don’t believe it.”
Amodei told Axios politicians and companies can still prepare and protect Americans from job cuts in a range of entry level white-collar fields including technology, finance, law, consulting and more.
“We, as the producers of this technology, have a duty and an obligation to be honest about what is coming,” Amodei told the outlet. “I don’t think this is on people’s radar.”
Amodei’s warning came a week after Anthropic launched its newest Amazon-backed AI model Claude Opus 4, which is used for complex, long-running coding tasks. It’s currently released under specific safety measures after testing raised concerns over the tool’s capabilities.
