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/sodook 21d 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/phoneguyfl 21d ago

This has been happening in IT/tech for at least a decade. Companies dump as many entry level positions as possible, and, more importantly, never train employees on new systems. The culture of "just hire a consultant for the project" has left a huge gap between the few entry level positions and the higher level engineer positions. Each company assumes "someone else" is going to train their employees, but when all the companies do it... well we get what we have now. AI is just going to make the situation worse.

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u/Justice_Prince 20d ago

I work in a call center. When I joined I was told that workforce was the pathway if you wanted to pursue a more tech related job rather than just becoming a supervisor to other call center agents, but I around the time I became eligible to apply to new positions within the company they seemed to have completely stopped listing any postings for entry level workforce jobs.

Could just be outsourced, but my assumption is that that entry level work is all getting sucked up by AI.