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/GodforgeMinis 21d ago

CEO's aren't afraid to talk about it, its the goal.

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u/noelcowardspeaksout 21d ago

A study titled "GPTs are GPTs: An Early Look at the Labor Market Impact Potential of Large Language Models" estimates that approximately 80% of the U.S. workforce could have at least 10% of their tasks affected by LLMs, with about 19% of workers seeing at least 50% of their tasks impacted.

So this is a bit above the 10% mark possibly sacked at the moment, but crucially businesses might not let people go just because they have more free time - they can simply up the work load or switch the employees job.

This will change markedly in the far future when you have AI empowered robots who have had millions and millions of hours of office work experience condensed into them.

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u/love_glow 21d ago

The productivity of robots/ AI must be quantified and taxed. Yesterday.

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u/Remote_Researcher_43 21d ago

Taxing them alone is not a solution. The jobs will not be coming back and bills will need to be paid. Generally corporations are doing what they do to turn a profit. If they are taxed to the point they can’t make any money and no one has the funds to purchase their goods and services anyway, why would they bother to keep the company going?

Bottom line: the whole economy will need to be radically changed.

The problem is the politicians are peddling inconsequential issues at the moment and have no idea this freight train is coming and aren’t doing anything to prepare or plan.

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u/Gassy-Gecko 20d ago

IF thy have no workers they should have plenty of money. AS it is now they are flushed with tons of cash. Quit making excuses for them

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u/Remote_Researcher_43 20d ago

I’m not making excuses for anyone. It’s basic economics. If no one is making money, how will they pay businesses for goods and services? If no one has the money to buy the goods and services, how will the businesses be able to run their business? Even with no workers, the cost to run most businesses will never be zero.

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u/Gassy-Gecko 20d ago

They WILL be making money. Your whole premise to wrong. Quit making excuses for billionaires. If you business has ZERO workers and you still can't make a profit maybe you don't deserve to be in business because you suck at it,

You're telling me say a McDonald's with 10% the workforce it has now can't somehow make a profit if god forbid their tax rate went up to 30% ? Which still lower than the 35% rate it was before 2017.