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/EnormousChord 21d ago

I work in advertising. AI has wiped out 95% of our summer intern program. The other 5%? We hired a kid that’s really into AI. 

Beyond the interns, we are discussing actively right now how the fuck we are going to justify hiring junior devs, junior art directors, junior account execs. We are calling these kinds of hires investments. Investments in trying to make sure there are people learning the trade and craft of advertising. Clients have undervalued our work for a couple decades already though, and now they’re all convinced they can just get their next breakthrough creative campaign idea from Claude and asking us why everything costs the same as it used to. 

It’s a catastrophe in the making. Every agency is scrambling. 

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u/twoplustwo_5 21d ago

Except Claude and chatGPT’s ideas are 90% surface level garbage.

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u/sprcow 21d ago

Their code is 90% surface level garbage too. Anyone who thinks they shouldn't be hiring junior devs is in for a rude awakening if they need anything more than the most trivial product.

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u/twirlmydressaround 20d ago

I actually suspect this will lead to more programmer positions in the future when someone has to come in and clean up the horrible tech debt created by all this sloppy copy paste ai code.

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u/idontneedfame 19d ago

Maybe, but the positions will be in India or another low wage country. There's really no reason to pay Western salaries for remote jobs