The AI jobs apocalypse probably isn't coming anytime soon

'Despite its vast progress, big doubts remain on whether AI can do everything a modern economy needs.' 'Despite its vast progress, big doubts remain on whether AI can do everything a modern economy needs.' I n March, Anthropic, the cutting-edge artificial intelligence business that gave us the chatbot Claude, published an analysis on the impact of AI on employment, to help us assess the claim that intelligent robots were about to redefine human existence, ending demand for human labor. Last year in May, Anthropic's co-founder, Dario Amodei, claimed AI could wipe out half of all entry-level jobs in one to five years. Last January, he told us AI would probably become a "general labor substitute for humans". In June he said we risk "a world where the economic trade-off dial is stuck on the hypergrowth, hyper-inequality setting". And yet, Anthropic's report suggests that, so far, AI's impact has fallen short of expectations: "We find no systematic increase in unemployment for highly exposed workers since late 2022," the report stated.