So, the CEO of Anthropic (“one of the world’s most powerful creators of artificial intelligence”) says we need to “get real” about entry-level white-collar jobs in the next few years. Pay attention! “Eyes open” to the coming job displacement.
This Axios article (much in the news cycle this past week) heralds the challenge which AI poses to the workforce. The need to build awareness, generally and among public officials. Beyond public-facing search engines and chatbots. The need for transparency on all sides (beyond the hype). The need for collective steering.
“What’s different here is both the speed at which this AI transformation could hit, and the breadth of industries and individual jobs that will be profoundly affected.”
“Market forces are going to keep propelling AI toward human-like reasoning.”
• Axios > > Behind the Curtain > “AI jobs danger: Sleepwalking into a white-collar bloodbath” by Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen (May 28, 2025) – AI is breaking ‘the bottom rungs of the career ladder.’
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Few are paying attention. Lawmakers don’t get it or don’t believe it. CEOs are afraid to talk about it. Many workers won’t realize the risks posed by the possible job apocalypse — until after it hits.Here’s how Amodei [CEO of Anthropic] and others fear the white-collar bloodbath is unfolding:
- OpenAI, Google, Anthropic and other large AI companies keep vastly improving the capabilities of their large language models (LLMs) to meet and beat human performance with more and more tasks. This is happening and accelerating.
- The U.S. government, worried about losing ground to China or spooking workers with preemptive warnings, says little. The administration and Congress neither regulate AI nor caution the American public. This is happening and showing no signs of changing.
- Most Americans, unaware of the growing power of AI and its threat to their jobs, pay little attention. This is happening, too.
