Sam Altman and Anthropic’s CEO Just Walked Back Their Dire AI Layoff Warnings

Sam Altman and Anthropic’s CEO Just Walked Back Their Dire AI Layoff Warnings

New data, and reassurances from leading AI developers, suggest the work automating tech isn’t generating feared job destruction—yet, anyway.

Sam Altman said he was 'pretty wrong' about the jobs apocalypse — and 'roughly right' about everything else — four days after OpenAI filed for a trillion-dollar IPO

Let’s do the timeline first, because the timeline is doing a lot of work here. On May 22nd, OpenAI filed confidentially for a public listing targeting a valuation of up to one trillion dollars. Four days later, Sam Altman took the stage at a Commonwealth Bank of Australia conference in Sydney and told the audience he had been “pretty wrong” about AI’s impact on jobs. Four days. I’m not saying the timing is suspicious. I’m saying the timing is re…

AI giants split on jobs apocalypse

OpenAIs Sam Altman has said mass white-collar layoffs have not materialized, while Anthropic has warned of major disruptionThe heads of two leading artificial intelligence companies have offered sharply different forecasts on whether the technology will trigger mass job losses. The split comes as as Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, and other tech giants continue large-scale layoffs tied to AI restructur