“A white collar bloodbath” is how Dario Amodei, CEO of leading artificial intelligence firm Anthropic, recently described the impact of artificial intelligence on the labour market to American news site Axios.
On May 28, he warned that the very technology his company is creating could wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs within the next five years.
And he’s not alone.
Micha Kaufman, CEO of Fiverr, the popular online marketplace for freelance services, shared on social media a company email from April 8 that says: “AI is coming for your jobs. Heck, it’s coming for my job too. This is a wake-up call.”
He goes on to say that this will affect a variety of fields and “it doesn’t matter if you are a programmer, designer, product manager, data scientist, lawyer, customer support rep, salesperson, or a finance person– AI is coming for you.”
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