OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.
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The AI jobs apocalypse has not yet come to pass — and Sam Altman says he's happy to be wrong about that.The OpenAI boss told a tech conference this week that his predictions about AI wiping out entry-level jobs had been wide of the mark, after once suggesting that the technology would cause "entire classes" of jobs to disappear."My scorecard, at the highest level, would be we've been roughly right on technological predictions and pretty wrong on the social and economic implications," said Altman, according to a summary of a conversation with Matt Comyn, the CEO of Commonwealth Bank of Australia, published on Tuesday.The OpenAI CEO said that the short-term impact of AI on entry-level white-collar jobs had not been anywhere near as bad as he once thought."I'm delighted to be wrong about that," Altman said.In the years following the release of ChatGPT in 2022, Altman was among several AI executives who warned that the technology would spark serious upheaval in the job market.In a 2023 interview with The Atlantic, he said that "jobs are definitely going to go away" as companies embrace AI, but added that he expected far better roles to be created in their place. Last year, Altman told a Federal Reserve conference that "entire classes" of jobs would vanish.
