Anthropic CEO says AI could wipe out HALF of entry-level white-collar jobs within 5 years

Anthropic AI CEO Dario Amodei told Axios during an interview about the potential mass layoffs coming with AI in white collar professions. He said that unemployment will likely spike by 10-20 percent in the next one to five years because of the advancements in technology replacing human labor in technology, finance, consulting, and other white-collar roles.

Amodei, 42, is working to build the very technology that will be responsible for the potential outcome, and he predicts that it will completely reconstruct society. The outlet said he is speaking out about the issue now in hopes of preparing the government and AI companies to protect and prepare the country for what is coming.

"Most of them are unaware that this is about to happen," Amodei told the outlet, with respect to lawmakers and Americans not understanding the magnitude of the situation. "It sounds crazy, and people just don't believe it."

Although it has not been talked about by the Trump administration, ally to the president, Steve Bannon, has been talking about the amount of jobs that may be killed by AI advancement. "I don't think anyone is taking into consideration how administrative, managerial and tech jobs for people under 30 — entry-level jobs that are so important in your 20s — are going to be eviscerated," Bannon told the outlet.

Amodei said that the latest version of his AI can code with nearly the same accuracy as a human, but that its potential will have good as well as bad consequences. "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 added, drawing a verbal picture of what he thought the future would look like.

"We, as the producers of this technology, have a duty and an obligation to be honest about what is coming," Amodei added. "I don't think this is on people's radar."