The Guardian Technology The AI jobs apocalypse never showed up. Still, jobs are changing and economists expect more to come.
The prediction was stark: artificial intelligence advancements would wipe out jobs en masse. “Half” of all entry-level white collar jobs would vanish, Anthropic’s CEO, Dario Amodei, said in May 2025. A month later, OpenAI’s CEO, Sam Altman, went further, foreseeing the end of “certain job categories”. Companies began citing AI in their layoffs. Workers organized. And students reconsidered their future careers.
But a year later, the mass carnage hasn’t shown up.
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Key Terms Explained #
Anthropic An AI safety company founded in 2021 by former OpenAI researchers, including Dario and Daniela Amodei.
Artificial Intelligence The science of creating machines that can perform tasks requiring human-like intelligence — reasoning, learning, perception, language understanding, and decision-making.
OpenAI The AI company behind ChatGPT, GPT-4, DALL-E, and Whisper.