Altman and Amodei Retract AI Jobs-Apocalypse Predictions
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Sam Altman and Dario Amodei walk back their earlier warnings of an AI-driven white-collar jobs apocalypse; Altman tells a Bank of Australia conference in Sydney he no longer believes mass job losses are coming, with both now suggesting AI may expand work opportunities instead.

You get to keep your job
Sam Altman and Dario Amadei have retracted their earlier warnings about AI causing massive job losses, now arguing that AI may expand work opportunities and that current layoffs are being wrongly attributed to AI rather than overhiring during the zero interest rate era.

The "AI Job Apocalypse" is CANCELLED!
Sam Altman and Dario Amodei recently reversed their warnings of a white-collar job apocalypse, with Altman declaring at the Bank of Australia conference that he was 'delighted to have been wrong,' aligning with the creator’s argument that the bottleneck has shifted from production to judgment.