Anthropic CEO predicts entry-level jobs that could be wiped out ‘faster than ever seen’ due to AI

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei repeated his prediction that AI could lead to wiping off of nearly half the entry-levle white collar jobs and spiking uneployment to 10-20% in the next five years. Amodei says without any intervention, there could be significant impact of AI on jobs and it could be faster than anything seen by any other technology in the past.

Ever since Amodei claimed earlier this year that AI could lead to widespread job loss, there has been a growing debate in the field with some tech leaders supporting the idea while others like Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman rejecting.

In a latest interaction with CBS News, Amodei repeated his assertion on job loss and even named some of he professions that could be impacted due to AI.

“If we look at entry-level consultants, lawyers, financial professionals, you know, many of, kind of the white-collar service industries, a lot of what they do, you know, AI models are already quite good at. And without intervention, it’s hard to imagine that there won’t be some significant job impact there. And my worry is that it will be broad, and it will be faster than what we’ve seen with previous technology.” Amodei said

“We do know that this is coming incredibly quickly. And I think the worst version of outcomes would be we knew there was going to be this incredible transformation, and people didn’t have enough of an opportunity to, to adapt.” he added

Amodei also noted that lack of tranpareny about the risks of AI models could lead to repeating the risks of cigarette or opioid companies who they their products were dangerous and didn’t talk about them or did anything to prevent them

Notably, just a few days back, a high profile DeepSeek researcher had also predicted that AI could lead to taking over the jobs done by humans in the next few decades.

The researcher named Chen Deli at a conference in China said AI could be helpful to humans in the short term, but it could threaten human jobs within a decade.

“In the next 10–20 years, AI could take over the rest of the work humans perform and society could face a massive challenge, so at the time tech companies need to take the role of ‘defender’,” Deli said.

Will AI soon become smarter than humans?

When asked if he believes that AI will become smarter than humans, Amodei replied to the affirmative, stating: “I believe it will reach that level, that it will be smarter than most or all humans in most or all ways.”

He also noted that not everything about AI can be predicted but Anthropic is “trying to predict everything we can.” He noted that the San Francisco based AI startup is worried about economic impacts of AI, misues of the models and even losing control of them.