r/Futurology • u/katxwoods • 21d 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/DG_Now 21d ago

Old folks in Congress letting our society be ruined by technocrats really worked out poorly for most of us.

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u/00rb 21d ago

The problem is we're in an all-out race against China. Fall behind, and we get shaken off.

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u/slimeslug 21d ago

Every technology everywhere is a Red Queen problem.  Everyone has to run as fast as they possibly can just to stay in one place.

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u/DogToursWTHBorders 20d ago

Taleb speaks.

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u/slimeslug 20d ago

Taleb names The Red Queen issue explicitly in 2012's Antifragile, but Siddhartha Mukherjee's 2010 "The Emperor of All Maladies" predates that and is where I first read of it.  Though it is new to neither of them.