OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei have revised earlier warnings about AI gutting white-collar employment. Altman said he was “pretty wrong” about the economic impact and noted that fewer entry-level roles have been eliminated than expected. He acknowledged receiving criticism for fear-mongering but said the risk still may exist. Amodei previously predicted large job losses but now said automation may expand the work people do. Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon has argued that the job apocalypse panic was overblown and pointed to long-run American economic history. OpenAI and Anthropic are also preparing for IPOs with valuations estimated around $1 trillion each.
"“I'm delighted to be wrong about this,” Altman told Comyn. “I thought there would have been more impact on entry-level white-collar jobs being eliminated by now than has actually happened.” Altman added that he's taken a lot of flack for his hype, but better safe than sorry. “People are like, 'Oh you could have saved the world a lot of fear mongering and a lot of doom and gloom' but at the time I was like, 'I see this is a real risk we should probably talk about it.' and it still may.”"
"Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, who once claimed AI could eliminate 50% of white-collar jobs, now says automation may actually expand the work people do. Solomon, meanwhile, has argued consistently since at least late 2025 that the panic was overblown-and is now pointing to a century of American economic history to say he was right. The shift places both companies’ leadership in line with skepticism about an “AI job apocalypse.”"
"For the OpenAI CEO, his comments walk back his prophecy on AI's impact on labor. A year ago, Altman told his brother Jack on the Uncapped podcast: “A lot of jobs will go away...we have always been really good at figuring out new things to do...I'm not a believer that that ever runs out.” Now he says the displacement he feared simply hasn't materialized, and a personal experiment reinforced it. He tried delegating his Slack and email responses to"
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