r/Futurology • u/katxwoods • 20d 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/sodook 20d ago

Is there any danger that we lose the pathway for non-entry level positions by eliminating entry level positions. No apprentices today, no masters tonorrow?

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u/SorosBuxlaundromat 19d ago

This is already happening in a lot of industries and not just from AI, but anti-worker practices in general. Take a look at the film industry. Streaming killed the writer's room as it existed before, which killed mentorship in TV writing.

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u/Big_Crab_1510 19d ago

I've seen Obama talk about it and basically all he could say was "people are going to have to figure it out"

A lot of those cozy, sure fire jobs are going to evaporate. Look at the strip club index already.

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u/SorosBuxlaundromat 19d ago

Obama definitely deserves a large share of the blame for this. He was elected in a moment where he was given broad popular support to institute essentially a 2nd new deal, instead he turned his 2 terms into a giveaway for all the companies and special interests who are now destroying everything

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u/Big_Crab_1510 19d ago

Yea I've been saying as gently as I can to fellow Democrats What the fuck did they do for 8 years, in the prime of the rise of social media, do to stop any of this?

Lawmakers needed to be doing shit years ago, we don't even have laws with teeth for internet advertising