Spinning a good narrative is critical to selling artificial intelligence these days. But the leaders of today’s biggest labs are giving us whiplash by changing their stories on employment. The most likely outcome is neither a job apocalypse nor productivity utopia, but something harder to measure: a quiet degradation of the quality of the jobs that remain.
Last year, Anthropic PBC Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei warned AI would eliminate more than 50% of all entry-level white-collar jobs within five years. Now, he’s saying it’ll make everyone more productive. “If you automate 90% of the job, then everyone does the 10% of the ...