Sam Altman Says the AI Jobs Apocalypse Is Not Happening After All: 'Delighted to Be Wrong'
Altman said AI has not caused the broad white-collar job losses he once expected, even as nearly 50,000 layoffs were linked to the technology, a report said.
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Sam Altman and Dario Amodei's conveniently timed doomer-to-boomer pivot
Florian Gaertner/Getty Images; Markus Schreiber/AP ImagesAmong AI's big dogs, doomerism is so out, and boomerism has boomeranged back.Last year, Sam Altman warned that AI would make whole categories of jobs disappear. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said half of white collar entry-level jobs could vanish in five years. Palantir CEO Alex Karp has gone so far to say that the only people sure to have a place in the AI era will work in trades or be neuro…
OpenAI’s Altman says AI unlikely to lead to ‘jobs apocalypse’
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said this week that the rapid development and adoption of AI would not lead to a global “jobs apocalypse” and the technology had not claimed as many white-collar jobs as he had feared. Speaking virtually at a Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) conference in Sydney, Altman said he was initially concerned about the impact AI would have on global employment levels. He said he and his executives had been “roughly right” on …
Sam Altman says the AI jobs apocalypse is not happening after all: 'Delighted to be wrong'
Sam Altman is backing away from some of his starkest warnings about artificial intelligence and jobs. After years of predicting sweeping worker displacement, the OpenAI CEO now says the feared "jobs apocalypse" has not materialized as he expected. Speaking at a Sydney event hosted by the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Altman said he no longer believes the labor market is headed for the kind of collapse some AI leaders have forecast and is "deli…
For at least three years, Sam Altman was one of the main spokespeople for the most alarmist speech on AI and employment. In 2023 he said that jobs “will definitely disappear.” In 2025, at the Federal Reserve conference, he stated that customer care would be completely replaced by AI. Dario Amodei, his main competitor as CEO of Anthropic, said that half of the initial administrative jobs could disappear in five years. Altman now goes back. At a C…
‘The jobs picture is likely to be very different than we thought’: Sam Altman pours cold water on AI 'jobs apocalypse' claims – but that doesn’t mean there won’t be some workforce disruption
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has dismissed claims that rapid AI advances could lead to a “jobs apocalypse”, insisting that many roles will still require a human touch.
Sam Altman and Dario Amodei Walk Back AI Jobs Apocalypse Predictions in 2026
Sam Altman says he’s “delighted to be wrong” about AI wiping out white-collar jobs after years of warning that automation could erase entire categories of work. That reversal matters because OpenAI and Anthropic helped drive much of the global panic around AI job losses just as both companies reportedly move closer toward massive IPOs. Here’s why the feared AI jobs apocalypse still hasn’t arrived in 2026. What did Sam Altman and Dario Amodei ori…
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