AI and jobs
Whether AI displaces human work, which jobs go first, and what replaces them.
- DA
1 Jan 2026
Dario Amodei quoted
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
- DA
1 Jan 2026
Dario Amodei quoted
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
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- AK
17 Nov 2025
Andrej Karpathy quoted
The more a task/job is verifiable, the more amenable it is to automation in the new programming paradigm.
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- AK
16 Nov 2025
Andrej Karpathy quoted
AI 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.
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- AK
25 Sept 2025
Andrej Karpathy quoted
Holds Most 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.
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- DA
1 Oct 2024
Dario Amodei quoted
Holds Universal basic income is at most a small part of the answer to AI-driven job loss.
It 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.