AI and jobs

1 Jun 2026

Dario Amodei quoted

HoldsEnduring job displacement is undesirable and dangerous, and should be minimised rather than accepted as a goal.

First, enduring job displacement is undesirable and dangerous, and we should do everything we can to minimize or prevent it, not to bring it about.

↗Policy on the AI Exponential (June 2026)darioamodei.com

1 Jan 2026

Dario Amodei quoted

HoldsAI could displace half of all entry-level white-collar jobs within one to five years, even while it accelerates economic growth.

This is a topic that I warned about very publicly in 2025 , where I predicted that AI could displace half of all entry-level white collar jobs in the next 1–5 years, even as it accelerates economic growth and scientific progress.

↗The Adolescence of Technology (January 2026)darioamodei.com

1 Jan 2026

Dario Amodei quoted

HoldsLabour markets will eventually recover from AI, but the speed of the transition makes the short term unusually painful compared with past technologies.

To be clear, speed in itself does not mean labor markets and employment won’t eventually recover, it just implies the short-term transition will be unusually painful compared to past technologies, since humans and labor markets are slow to react and to equilibrate.

↗The Adolescence of Technology (January 2026)darioamodei.com

25 Sept 2025

Andrej Karpathy quoted

HoldsMost current predictions about AI's imminent impact on the job market are naive.

There are a lot of imo naive predictions out there on the imminent impact of AI on the job market.

↗@karpathy on Xx.com

10 Jun 2025

Sam Altman quoted

HoldsAI will eliminate whole classes of jobs, but the wealth it creates will make policy responses affordable that were previously unthinkable.

There will be very hard parts like whole classes of jobs going away, but on the other hand the world will be getting so much richer so quickly that we’ll be able to seriously entertain new policy ideas we never could before.

↗The Gentle Singularityblog.samaltman.com