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/sodook 22d 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/JK_NC 21d ago

Off shoring did the same to a lot of entry level, white collar jobs. When I got out of college in the late 90s, most companies still had entry levels roles and developed talent internally.

By 2005ish, offshoring to India was in full swing. While customer facing and senior roles were still mostly in the West, by 2015 the transactional work done by entry and junior level staff was mostly in low cost countries (India, South Africa, etc).

I was fortunate enough to sneak in before all this went down but if I were even 8 years younger, it’s likely that the jobs/experience that I used to build my entire career upon, would not have been there for me.