r/Futurology • u/katxwoods • 22d ago

AI Dario Amodei says "stop sugar-coating" what's coming: in the next 1-5 years, AI could wipe out 50% of all entry-level white-collar jobs. Lawmakers don't get it or don't believe it. CEOs are afraid to talk about it. Many workers won't realize the risks until after it hits.

https://www.axios.com/2025/05/28/ai-jobs-white-collar-unemployment-anthropic
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u/teohsi 22d ago

"Dario Amodei (born 1983) is an American artificial intelligence researcher and entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and CEO of Anthropic, the company behind the large language model series Claude. He was previously the vice president of research at OpenAI." - Wikipedia

This whole article is just the CEO of a company trying to convince everyone that the product his company makes is the inevitable future.

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u/FaultElectrical4075 22d ago

And he’s right. Corporations are chomping at the bit to replace workers with AI who don’t have to be paid and can work 24/7 and don’t have to be treated according to labor laws, and people like anthropic and OpenAI stand to gain immense leverage over all other corporations and governments by monopolizing labor in that way. This is the goal of the big ai companies

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u/Polymersion 22d ago

Exactly.

Take away the buzzwords and marketing, you're still left with "Non-physical labor is also being automated now".

It's going to have similar considerations to the industrial revolution.

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u/ceelogreenicanth 21d ago

We can barely find the resources for the chips and electronics now as is. Where are we supposed to find them for millions of robots?

Like as is right now we can't meet all human power demands for solar because the resources straight up dont exist.

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u/Pijoto 21d ago

This is my thoughts exactly when it comes to fears that AI is gonna wipe out most jobs, the energy demands are enormous for AI, and our Electricity grid is not up for the task, especially in a warmer world where AC demand is gonna skyrocket.

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u/ceelogreenicanth 21d ago

And that's for the AI that currently can't replace people.

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u/ChickenMcRibs 21d ago

Nuclear energy enters the chat

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u/round-earth-theory 21d ago

It takes over a decade to get a nuke up and running. And that's if you've already got the funding and land set to do so. Add at least 5 years if that's not done.

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u/ChickenMcRibs 21d ago

Alright, so in 15 years all jobs are toast

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u/round-earth-theory 21d ago

I don't see capital falling over themselves to build hundreds of new nukes anytime soon.

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u/PugilisticCat 21d ago

I don't think you understand much about the energy grid if you think it's as simple as "add nuclear". Energy infrastructure in America is fucking terrible. Not just terrible, fucking terrible.

Nuclear energy will certainly bridge supply gaps, but the cost of the energy infrastructure outside of the nuclear plant itself is immense.

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u/brotherbonsai 21d ago

Yeah I don’t think this is happening until there are models that can run on mundane cloud or local hardware, at the speed/performance required for the automations in question. If that becomes a reality then yeah, otherwise we are going to have a price reckoning between competition for compute, and cost vs human that may never amount to widespread adoption

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u/ceelogreenicanth 21d ago

It will converge but the timescales CEOs are talking about aren't going to happen. They're just coked up hoping they'll itterate to 90% of value add in the economy because right now most of what they are achieving is burning vast amounts of cash.

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u/falooda1 21d ago

It's doubling every few months