Daniela Amodei, who cofounded Anthropic with her brother Dario, said uniquely human qualities will actually be more critical in the age of AI, not less.
In an interview with ABC News that aired on Saturday, she said the number of jobs that AI could do without help from people is “vanishingly small.” At the same time, even the most cognitively challenging tasks that humans excel at can also be augmented by AI.
“I continue to believe that humans plus AI together actually create more meaningful work, more challenging work, more interesting work, high-productivity jobs,” Amodei added. “And then I think it will also open the aperture to a lot of access and opportunity for many people.”
That doesn’t mean the future employment landscape will require a technical background. Indeed, the release of Anthropic’s latest AI-coding tools sparked a massive selloff among tech stocks this past week as the technical expertise needed to write and maintain code is expected to fall sharply.
For her part, Amodei majored in literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz. After working briefly as a Capitol Hill staffer, she pivoted to the tech sector, joining fintech company Stripe then OpenAI. In 2020, she left the AI startup to cofound Anthropic, where Daniela is the president and manages alongside her CEO brother.
