Silicon Valley's new message: AI may not be the job apocalypse we said it'd be
Altman and Amodei flipped from "AI kills jobs" to "AI boosts productivity," timed with Anthropic's IPO as public AI sentiment crashed. Unemployment rose only 0.4 points since April 2024, revealing doomerism as market-timed cover for layoffs that shaped hiring strategy.
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The doomer-to-boomer boomerang whiplash
Silicon Valley's new message: AI may not be the job apocalypse we said it'd be
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By Amanda Hoover
Sam Altman and Dario Amodei row back on their prophecies of the AI job apocalypse, just in time for billion-dollar IPOs.
Some leaders like Goldman Sachs’s David Solomon and Box’s Aaron Levie have been saying all along that there won’t be a…
Another AI doomer article has gone viral, and like many in the genre, it lacks an appreciation for dynamism and markets. Then,…
With AI hype reaching fever pitch, a backlash has begun, with university graduates, in particular, resisting a technology that…
AI’s champions keep trying to impress, but the public is still waiting for answers about jobs, costs, and who benefits. By 2026,…
The top AI labs have competing messages about the future of labor.
