{"slug": "ai-was-supposed-to-destroy-jobs-wheres-the-carnage", "title": "AI was supposed to destroy jobs. Where’s the carnage?", "summary": "The mass job destruction predicted from artificial intelligence has not materialized a year after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said in May 2025 that half of all entry-level white-collar jobs would vanish and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman foresaw the end of certain job categories. The Guardian reports that while companies have cited AI in layoffs and workers have organized, the anticipated carnage has not occurred, though jobs are changing and economists expect more disruption ahead.", "body_md": "# AI was supposed to destroy jobs. Where’s the carnage?\n\n[The Guardian Technology](https://www.theguardian.com/us/technology)\n\nThe AI jobs apocalypse never showed up. Still, jobs are changing and economists expect more to come.\n\nThe prediction was stark: [artificial intelligence](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/artificialintelligenceai) advancements would wipe out jobs en masse. “Half” of all entry-level white collar jobs would vanish, [Anthropic](/glossary/anthropic)’s CEO, Dario Amodei, said in May 2025. A month later, [OpenAI](/glossary/openai)’s CEO, [Sam Altman](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/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](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2026/feb/20/ai-future-work-technology-white-collar).\n\nBut a year later, the mass carnage hasn’t shown up.\n\n[Continue reading...](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/12/ai-job-destruction)\n\nGet AI news in your inbox\n\nDaily digest of what matters in AI.\n\n## Key Terms Explained\n\n[Anthropic](/glossary/anthropic)\n\nAn AI safety company founded in 2021 by former OpenAI researchers, including Dario and Daniela Amodei.\n\n[Artificial Intelligence](/glossary/artificial-intelligence)\n\nThe science of creating machines that can perform tasks requiring human-like intelligence — reasoning, learning, perception, language understanding, and decision-making.\n\n[OpenAI](/glossary/openai)\n\nThe AI company behind ChatGPT, GPT-4, DALL-E, and Whisper.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-was-supposed-to-destroy-jobs-wheres-the-carnage", "canonical_source": "https://www.machinebrief.com/news/ai-was-supposed-to-destroy-jobs-wheres-the-carnage-fc0h", "published_at": "2026-08-12 10:00:27+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-12 11:42:35.229238+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-policy"], "entities": ["Anthropic", "Dario Amodei", "OpenAI", "Sam Altman", "The Guardian"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-was-supposed-to-destroy-jobs-wheres-the-carnage", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-was-supposed-to-destroy-jobs-wheres-the-carnage.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-was-supposed-to-destroy-jobs-wheres-the-carnage.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-was-supposed-to-destroy-jobs-wheres-the-carnage.jsonld"}}