As a wave of AI fervor has washed over Silicon Valley, fear of an impending “jobpocalypse” has followed in its wake. Thanks in no small part to lofty prognostications from tech CEOs themselves—Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, for example, famously predicted that AI could soon replace half of all entry-level white collar jobs—many industries have been bracing for what they’ve been told will be a surge of human employees being replaced by machines. The economic and social disruptions caused by such mass displacement, so the true-believers say, will be of a magnitude unlike anything ever seen in human history. For the time being, however, such seismic effects have yet to materialize. More individuals and businesses are now using AI than ever before, and yet on the whole, the job market seems to be riding the wave without any noticeable calamity. The feared jobpocalypse is nowhere in sight. That’s at least the case in California, according to data released Thursday alongside a new public dashboard designed to track the impacts of AI throughout the state’s labor market. Despite being the global economic and cultural epicentre of tech, the state hasn’t yet begun to experience the displacement that many tech moguls have prophesied.
The AI ‘Jobpocalypse’ Is Nowhere to Be Seen in California, the Heartland of Tech
The state has launched a “first-in-the-nation” data-tracking tool to keep an eye on how AI is reshaping its labor market.











