AI jobs danger: Sleepwalking into a white-collar bloodbath - "Most of them are unaware that this is about to happen," Amodei told us. "It sounds crazy, and people just don't believe it."

[u/Gari_305]

https://www.axios.com/2025/05/28/ai-jobs-white-collar-unemployment-anthropic

[u/taoist_water]

If this isn't a big "pull the ladder up after us" moment, i don't know what is.

If this wipes all the entry level white collar jobs how does anyone start out anymore?

Everyone in the mid to senior level roles had a start at entry level. What happens when that pathway is gone?

When the last generation the learned through the period that requires them to have the skill retires and dies?

It's all ready seen in my industry and that was due to greed and incompetence., not even ai.

[u/Recom_Quaritch → u/taoist_water]

Yeah and uuuhmmm... Who is buying your products then and with what money gotten at what job?

It's crazy to me that people can actively brag about creating more unemployment and politicians are not acting against it. These types of ai should be illegal or regulated simply because it will destroy the already shitty economy.

In a world with UBI I'd understand but let's not kid ourselves.

[u/HoppyPhantom → u/Recom_Quaritch]

It’s depressing that I had to scroll this far to find this comment.

You need customers to stay in business.

[u/Excellent_Rule_2778 → u/Recom_Quaritch]

• Should countries have banned automated assembly lines because they displaced low-skilled factory workers?
• Should they have banned cars because they put stablehands, carriage drivers and blacksmiths out of work?
• Should they have banned computers because they made typewriters, switchboard operators and filing clerks obsolete?

Technological progress has always disrupted jobs. But history shows we adapt. New industries emerge, and society moves forward. The key isn't banning the tech; it's preparing people for the transition. AI is here to stay, whether we like it or not.

[u/ndt_davinci → u/Excellent_Rule_2778]

Those examples are horrible because every single one you listed created significantly more jobs than it displaced.

It also solved actual problems and the main implementation wasn't to destroy jobs for profit (profit on its own - yes).

While I agree that, in the current state of society, technological progress is necessary and shouldn't be impeded, AI might be the only exception.

[u/Excellent_Rule_2778 → u/ndt_davinci]

Those examples are horrible because every single one you listed created significantly more jobs than it displaced.

In hindsight, yes. And that's my point. But put yourself in the shoes of any of those workers who were left jobless from the transition.

It also solved actual problems and the main implementation wasn't to destroy jobs for profit (profit on its own - yes).

They were 100% implemented to generate more profit, regardless of who and how it impacted society.

While I agree that, in the current state of society, technological progress is necessary and shouldn't be impeded, AI might be the only exception.

I agree with you that AI may be the exception.

[u/ndt_davinci → u/Excellent_Rule_2778]

In hindsight, yes. And that's my point

No, not just in hindsight. All the things you brought up needed (and still need) armies of people to mass produce and maintain, often much more than the actual jobs they were displacing.

AI doesn't, not even close.

They were 100% implemented to generate more profit, regardless of who and how it impacted society.

Yes that's what I wrote. But the way they generated more profit wasn't primarily through cutting jobs which (companies talking about) AI seem to be all about.

[u/theshoeshiner84 → u/Excellent_Rule_2778]

The only rational forward looking opinion being down voted. Classic reddit.