Whether AI displaces human work, which jobs go first, and what replaces them.
| Date | Dario Amodei | Andrej Karpathy |
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| Show Dario Amodei's position | Holds Recorded here as Their exact wordsThis 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. | |
| Show Andrej Karpathy's position | Holds Recorded here as Their exact wordsThe more a task/job is verifiable, the more amenable it is to automation in the new programming paradigm. | |
| Show Andrej Karpathy's position | Holds Recorded here as Their exact wordsAI has been compared to various historical precedents: electricity, industrial revolution, etc., I think the strongest analogy is that of AI as a new computing paradigm (Software 2.0) because both are fundamentally about the automation of digital information processing. | |
| Show Andrej Karpathy's position | Holds Recorded here as Most current predictions about AI's imminent impact on the job market are naive. Their exact wordsThere are a lot of imo naive predictions out there on the imminent impact of AI on the job market. | |
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| Show Dario Amodei's position | Holds Recorded here as Universal basic income is at most a small part of the answer to AI-driven job loss. Their exact wordsIt could be as simple as a large universal basic income for everyone, although I suspect that will only be a small part of a solution. Also held byDavid Heinemeier Hanssonsee all 2 | |