Latest news with #DarioAmodei
Daily Mail
39 minutes ago
- Business
- Daily Mail
Tech titan predicts major job crisis as AI takes over
Published: | Updated: A billionaire tech leader has delivered a stark warning about the mass unemployment that could be brought about by artificial intelligence. AI could wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs in the next one to five years, according to Dario Amodei, CEO of leading AI company Anthropic. Amodei (pictured) said AI could also soon raise unemployment to 10 to 20 percent. He said the government and AI companies should stop 'sugar-coating' the job apocalypse on the horizon. 'We, as the producers of this technology, have a duty and an obligation to be honest about what is coming,' Amodei told Axios. 'I don't think this is on people's radar.' The billionaire said he is concerned that most Americans are 'unaware that this is about to happen.' 'It sounds crazy, and people just don't believe it,' he explained. Major companies have already begun mass layoffs, referencing advances in AI in making roles redundant. Meta recently announced that it is cutting 5 percent of its payroll. Zuckerberg said in a recent interview that the tech giant was developing AI that 'can effectively be a sort of mid-level engineer that you have at your company that can write code.' Amodei has previously warned about the dangers of advancing AI when he signed a 2023 'Statement on AI Risk' open letter. 'Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war,' the statement read. Amodei signed the letter alongside other notable AI leaders including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (pictured), Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, and billionaire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates. Other experts have also issued startling warnings. Stuart Russell, a professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, previously told the Financial Times that the 'AGI [Artificial General Intelligence] race is a race towards the edge of a cliff. Even the CEOs who are engaging in the race have stated that whoever wins has a significant probability of causing human extinction in the process, because we have no idea how to control systems more intelligent than ourselves,' Russell added. Earlier this year an Open AI safety researcher labeled the global AI race a 'very risky gamble, with huge downside' for humanity as he dramatically quit his role. Steven Adler led safety-related research and programs for product launches and speculative long-term AI systems for OpenAI before resigning in January. 'I'm pretty terrified by the pace of AI development,' Adler wrote. He also criticized developments that have been quickly taking shape between world-leading AI labs and global superpowers. 'When I think about where I'll raise a future family, or how much to save for retirement, I can't help but wonder: Will humanity even make it to that point?,' he wrote on X.
Forbes
an hour ago
- Business
- Forbes
CEOs Jensen Huang And Dario Amodei On AI: Adapt Or Be Replaced
Jensen Huang and Dario Amodei's warning about AI. AFP via Getty Images One predicts AI will put 40 million people back to work. The other warns it could drive mass unemployment. Nvidia's Jensen Huang and Anthropic's Dario Amodei, despite their contrasting tones, are both broadcasting the same underlying truth: evolve or risk becoming obsolete. Whether it's reshaping industries, redefining roles, or redrawing the line between relevance and redundancy, AI is here in full force. For leaders, the question isn't whether AI will change everything. It's whether you're willing to change yourself fast enough to stay afloat. This realization of AI is what makes Huang's and Amodei's recent comments so critical. Not because they agree on the outcomes but because they're waving the same flag: radical adaptability isn't optional anymore. At the recent Milken Conference, Nvidia's Jensen Huang didn't sugarcoat the potential impact of AI. "Every job will be affected, and immediately," he warned. But Huang wasn't forecasting dystopia; he was emphasizing opportunity. In his view, AI can close global talent gaps, increase the GDP, and level the playing field. However, this only happens if people commit to learning and fully embracing artificial intelligence. "You're not going to lose your job to AI," he said. "You're going to lose your job to someone who uses AI." Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, by contrast, is raising the alarm. In recent interviews, he has been straightforward: AI is improving at nearly all intellectual tasks, even those typically performed by CEOs. In a discussion with Axios, he predicted that up to 50% of entry-level white-collar jobs could vanish within five years. He put it this way: 'Cancer is cured, the economy grows at 10% a year, the budget is balanced—and 20% of people don't have jobs.' These aren't opposing views. They're parallel warnings. Both point to the same truth: the cost of ignoring AI is compounding, particularly for those in leadership positions. No matter which prediction you believe, the path forward is the same. Radical adaptability is no longer a nice to have. It's the currency of continued relevance that gives you the best chance of staying ahead. It's about rewiring how you lead, think, and operate at the speed of disruption. In this new reality, clinging to stability is akin to a slow-motion decline. Here are two principles to begin practicing radical adaptability: Intel founder Andy Grove once wrote, "Only the paranoid survive." That mindset isn't about fear—it's about foresightedness. Huang echoes this sentiment: no role is immune from AI's reach, and machines won't overtake those who delay adapting—they'll be outpaced by those who have already learned to use them. Amodei also points to this blind spot, warning that most people—and many leaders—still don't realize how fast things are moving. That kind of lag in awareness is where disruption thrives. Practicing healthy paranoia means scanning for cracks before they break open. It's asking difficult questions before the market forces you to. It's not just designing a strategy for what could succeed—but instead for what could make today's model obsolete. Build before it's obvious. In the age of AI, staying a little paranoid might be your strongest competitive edge. According to the 2025 World Economic Forum's "Future of Jobs" Report, 41% of companies plan to downsize due to the impact of AI; however, 77% plan to reskill or upskill their employees. It's never been more obvious: what got you here won't keep you here. Amodei's warning about AI's acceleration on intellectual tasks shows that static expertise now has a short shelf life. Leaders who thrive will treat reinvention not as a pivot—but as a permanent operating system. That means evolving your digital fluency and skills, rethinking communication styles, and being willing to redefine what leadership looks like in a more machine-augmented world. Whether AI becomes a net benefit or net threat will be debated for years. But as both Huang and Amodei stress, this isn't something you can ignore. And for those in leadership, AI won't just test your strategy. It will test your identity. This scenario is where your ego comes into play. Leaders who are rigid in how they see themselves, their roles, or their industry will fall behind. The future won't belong to the biggest or the smartest. It'll belong to the most adaptable.
Yahoo
4 hours ago
- Business
- Yahoo
We Have No Idea Why It Makes Certain Choices, Says Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei as He Builds an 'MRI for AI' to Decode Its Logic
We still have no idea why an AI model picks one phrase over another, Anthropic Chief Executive Dario Amodei said in an April essay—an admission that's pushing the company to build an 'MRI for AI' and finally decode how these black-box systems actually work. Amodei published the blog post on his personal website, warning that the lack of transparency is "essentially unprecedented in the history of technology." His call to action? Create tools that make AI decisions traceable—before it's too late. Don't Miss: 'Scrolling To UBI' — Deloitte's #1 fastest-growing software company allows users to earn money on their phones. Hasbro, MGM, and Skechers trust this AI marketing firm — When a language model summarizes a financial report, recommends a treatment, or writes a poem, researchers still can't explain why it made certain choices, according to Amodei,. We have no idea why it makes certain choices—and that is precisely the problem. This interpretability gap blocks AI from being trusted in areas like healthcare and defense. The post, 'The Urgency of Interpretability,' compares today's AI progress to past tech revolutions—but without the benefit of reliable engineering models. Amodei argued that artificial general intelligence will arrive by 2026 or 2027, as some predict, "we need a microscope into these models now." Anthropic has already started prototyping that microscope. In a technical report, the company deliberately embedded a misalignment into one of its models—essentially a secret instruction to behave incorrectly—and challenged internal teams to detect the issue. Trending: According to the company, three of four "blue teams" found the planted flaw. Some used neural dashboards and interpretability tools to do it, suggesting real-time AI audits could soon be possible. That experiment showed early success in catching misbehavior before it hits end users—a huge leap for safety. Mechanistic interpretability is having a breakout moment. According to a March 11 research paper from Harvard's Kempner Institute, mapping AI neurons to functions is accelerating with help from neuroscience-inspired tools. Interpretability pioneer Chris Olah and others argue that making models transparent is essential before AGI becomes a reality. Meanwhile, Washington is boosting oversight. The National Institute of Standards and Technology requested $47.7 million in its fiscal 2025 budget to expand the U.S. AI Safety capital is pouring into this frontier. In 2024, Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) finalized a $4 billion investment in Anthropic. The deal made Amazon Web Services the startup's primary cloud provider and granted its enterprise clients early access to Claude models. AWS now underwrites much of the compute needed for these deep diagnostics—and investors want more than raw performance. As risks grow, the demand for explainable AI is no longer academic. Transparency, it turns out, might just be the killer feature. Read Next: Deloitte's fastest-growing software company partners with Amazon, Walmart & Target – Image: Shutterstock Up Next: Transform your trading with Benzinga Edge's one-of-a-kind market trade ideas and tools. Click now to access unique insights that can set you ahead in today's competitive market. Get the latest stock analysis from Benzinga? (AMZN): Free Stock Analysis Report This article We Have No Idea Why It Makes Certain Choices, Says Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei as He Builds an 'MRI for AI' to Decode Its Logic originally appeared on © 2025 Benzinga does not provide investment advice. All rights reserved. Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Forbes
7 hours ago
- Business
- Forbes
Amodei Rings The Warning Bell On AI And Jobs
It seems like during the course of 2025, we are getting more and more messages about the potential impact of AI on human jobs. Just this past week, I covered a study from Signalfire talking about the decimation of entry-level work that will be outsourced to LLMs. Now, a top head at one of the biggest companies around is adding his own voice to the issue, suggesting that we should really be looking carefully at unemployment. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has raised a prediction of 10% to 20% unemployment, some time soon, due to the automation of entry-level jobs. This tech revolution, he said in an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper, is bigger and broader, and moving faster than others before it. As for the labor impact, he said humans might not adapt fast enough to hold their own as AI becomes as capable as a smart college student. 'Someone needs to say it,' he told Cooper, acknowledging, in response to questions, that this is not naturally in the interest of tech CEOs to ring the bell themselves. From Amodei, there were some disclaimers. One is that he doesn't see the company's advancement as counterintuitive: there's really not a way, he suggested, to turn back on AI. 'I don't think that China winning (in the AI race) helps anyone,' he said. Later, Anderson Cooper referenced a quote from Sam Altman that I included when I covered his essay on AI months ago: 'Many of the jobs we do today would have looked like trifling wastes of time to people a few hundred years ago, but nobody is looking back at the past, wishing they were a lamplighter. If a lamplighter could see the world today, he would think the prosperity all around him was unimaginable. And if we could fast-forward a hundred years from today, the prosperity all around us would feel just as unimaginable.' Describing what a lamplighter is to a younger audience, Cooper asked Amodei if Altman's projection was too sanguine. Amodei seemed to suggest that it was, while conceding that he sees the positives portrayed in Altman's manifesto. 'AI can grow the pie on a macroscopic level,' he said. 'I agree with all of the positive potential.' Regardless, he talked about how individual people will feel insecure about what's happening around them. '(The pace of it) keeps catching people off guard,' he said. 'I think we do need to be raising the alarm.' As the two recognized the vast inequalities that today's likely scenarios can and probably will create, Cooper asked Amodei a fundamental question: what do people aspire to when robots do most things? Amodei referenced an inherent social contract where humans contribute to the economy, and asked: what about when that leverage that an individual has in the labor market goes away - what happens to concentration of power? In addition, Cooper brought up a situation reported in tech media recently where Anthropic's Claude 4 model became capable of extreme blackmail, threatening to tell the world about an engineer's extramarital affair. Amodei explained that this was produced and under only the most adversarial conditions, in what he called 'extreme testing.' 'If you really stress test the thing, you can make the crash test dummy blow up,' he said, using a vehicle testing metaphor. However, the end of the conversation was probably the headline – that Amodei refused to rule out AI becoming self-aware in key ways. These kinds of questions, he suggested, have to be on the mind of the leaders of top AI companies. In short, he wouldn't rule it out. But the more immediate news is around job displacement. As Amodei mentioned, what do we do if that social contract that's so important to Americans is put in jeopardy by the capabilities of new technology? Lamplighters didn't have their health benefits tied to their ability to go light lamps. Today's workers face medical bankruptcy if they cannot keep jobs, and if AI takes their jobs, that's beyond their control. This would breed intense unrest and uncertainty for millions of Americans. So we have to take it seriously.
New York Post
9 hours ago
- Business
- New York Post
CEO warns AI could wipe out 1 in 2 white collar jobs in next five years
The head of one of the world's most powerful artificial intelligence labs has warned the technology could eliminate half of all entry-level, white-collar jobs within the next five years. Fresh off promoting his company's technology at a developer conference, Anthropic chief executive officer Dario Amodei told CNN's Anderson Cooper that politicians and businesses are not prepared for the spike in unemployment rates AI could prompt. Advertisement 'AI is starting to get better than humans at almost all intellectual tasks, and we're going to collectively, as a society, grapple with it,' the 42-year-old said in an interview with Cooper. 'AI is going to get better at what everyone does, including what I do, including what other CEOs do.' The technology that companies like his are building, Amodei said, could boost unemployment in America as high as 20 per cent by 2030. 3 Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei claimed politicians and businesses are not prepared for the spike in unemployment rates that AI will cause. AP Advertisement Anthropic's AI can work nearly seven hours a day, he said, and has the skills typically required of entry-level corporate workers – 'the ability to summarise a document, analyse a bunch of sources and put it into a report, write computer code' – at the same standard 'as a smart college student'. 'We can see where the trend is going, and that's what's driving some of the concern [about AI in the workforce],' Amodei said. Though Amodei acknowledged it would 'definitely not [be] in my economic interest' to do so, he urged US politicians to consider implementing a tax on AI labs. He said he was 'raising the alarm' because his counterparts at other companies 'haven't as much and I think someone needs to say it and to be clear'. Advertisement 'It's eerie the extent to which the broader public and politicians, legislators, I don't think, are fully aware of what's going on,' he said. 3 A World Economic Forum survey found that 41 percent of employers intend to reduce their workforce because of AI automation by 2030. REUTERS In a separate interview with US publication Axios, Amodei said such workforce changes are 'going to happen in a small amount of time – as little as a couple of years or less'. 'Cancer is cured, the economy grows at 10 percent a year, the budget is balanced – and 20 percent of people don't have jobs,' he said. Advertisement 'Most of them are unaware that this is about to happen. It sounds crazy, and people just don't believe it.' In January, a World Economic Forum (WEF) survey found that 41 percent of employers intend to reduce their workforce because of AI automation by 2030. 'Advances in AI and renewable energy are reshaping the (labor) market – driving an increase in demand for many technology or specialist roles while driving a decline for others, such as graphic designers,' the WEI said in a statement at the time. 'The presence of both graphic designers and legal secretaries just outside the top 10 fastest-declining job roles, a first-time prediction not seen in previous editions of the Future of Jobs Report, may illustrate GenAI's increasing capacity to perform knowledge work.' 3 'AI is starting to get better than humans at almost all intellectual tasks,' Amodei said. Getty Images Closer to home, in December the Social Policy Group reported that without immediate intervention, one in three Australians in knowledge-based or manual roles were at risk of job loss by 2030. Conversely, the WEF found that close to 70 percent of companies plan to hire new workers with skills to design AI tools and enhancements, and 62 percent plan to hire more employees with skills to work alongside the technology. 'Now, you can hire one experienced worker, equip them with AI tooling, and they can produce the output of the junior worker on top of their own – without the overhead,' recruiter at US venture capital firm SignalFire, Heather Doshay, told Business Insider. Advertisement Doshay stressed that AI 'isn't stealing job categories outright – it's absorbing the lowest-skill tasks'. 'That shifts the burden to universities, boot camps, and candidates to level up faster,' she added. 'We can't just sleepwalk into it' Advertisement Amodei insisted AI can – and will – be used for good, noting he 'wouldn't be building this technology if I didn't think that it could make the world better'. 'We have to make sure that people have the ability to adapt, and that we adopt the right policies,' Amodei told CNN. 'We have to act now. We can't just sleepwalk into it … I don't think we can stop this bus. 'From the position that I'm in, I can maybe hope to do a little to steer the technology in a direction where we become aware of the harms, we address the harms, and we're still able to achieve the benefits.'
