AI CEO predicts massive job loss

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei told Axios this week that artificial intelligence could wipe out half of all entry-level office jobs within the next few years.

Amodei said AI is quickly surpassing humans in intellectual tasks and could dramatically reshape the workforce.

He described a future where cancer is cured, and the economy grows at 10% annually—but with 20% unemployment. 

Amodei also told the outlet that the government should look into taxing “people like me, and maybe specifically on the AI companies.”

He wants the government to tax the AI industry and others that he says can lead to income inequality.

Critics aren’t happy
Economist Aaron Sojourner called Amodei’s scenario where AI may take your job away “wildly unprecedented” and questioned its feasibility.

Tech entrepreneur Mark Cuban also pushed back, noting that past technological shifts have created new jobs.

Many see Amodei’s statements as more marketing than warning, as they closely follow a major update to Anthropic’s Claude chatbot. Its Claude Opus 4 threatened to blackmail an engineer in fear of deletion during tests.

While Anthropic brands itself as an AI safety-focused company, skeptics argue that bold predictions without evidence feel more like hype than honest caution.