# The AI jobs apocalypse probably isn’t coming anytime soon > Source: > Published: 2026-07-25 13:00:43+00:00 # The AI jobs apocalypse probably isn’t coming anytime soon [The Guardian Technology](https://www.theguardian.com/us/technology) [Artificial intelligence](/glossary/artificial-intelligence) may not deliver on its promise of vast economic opportunity at a price that humanity is willing to pay In March, [Anthropic](/glossary/anthropic), the cutting-edge artificial intelligence business that gave us the [chatbot](/glossary/chatbot) [Claude](/glossary/claude), [published an analysis](https://www.anthropic.com/research/labor-market-impacts) on the impact of AI on employment, to help us assess the claim that intelligent robots were about to redefine human existence, ending demand for human labor. Last year in May, Anthropic’s co-founder, Dario Amodei, claimed AI could wipe out half of all entry-level jobs in one to five years. Last January, [he told us](https://darioamodei.com/essay/the-adolescence-of-technology#4-player-piano) AI would probably become a “general labor substitute for humans”. In June [he said](https://darioamodei.com/post/policy-on-the-ai-exponential) we risk “a world where the economic trade-off dial is stuck on the hypergrowth, hyper-inequality setting”. [Continue reading...](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/25/ai-jobs-apocalypse-human-labor) Get AI news in your inbox Daily digest of what matters in AI. ## Key Terms Explained [Anthropic](/glossary/anthropic) An AI safety company founded in 2021 by former OpenAI researchers, including Dario and Daniela Amodei. [Artificial Intelligence](/glossary/artificial-intelligence) The science of creating machines that can perform tasks requiring human-like intelligence — reasoning, learning, perception, language understanding, and decision-making. [Chatbot](/glossary/chatbot) An AI system designed to have conversations with humans through text or voice. [Claude](/glossary/claude) Anthropic's family of AI assistants, including Claude Haiku, Sonnet, and Opus.