The AI ​​could annihilate millions of well -paid jobs, according to the CEO of Anthropic

Even when the company that leads is contributing to the development of AI, to Dario AmodeiCEO de Anthropic, The pulse does not tremble when warning about the potentially disastrous effect of this technologywhich could end up destroying large -scale jobs.

Amodei considers that the development, extraordinarily rapid and fast, of the great language models could be translated sooner than later in the replacement of flesh and blood workers with AI. And everything points, according to the CEO of Anthropic, which Well -paid jobs developed in offices will be the most affected by what is presumed as a real massacre in the workplace.

In an interview with Axios Amodei describes the dystopian scenario that is apparently on the horizon in four phases. First, companies such as Anthropic, Openai and Google will develop large language models that will be in a position to match or even overcome human performance in a growing number of tasks. According to the CEO of Anthropic, politicians will be unable to react to this new reality (partly for fear of conflicts of geopolitical nature and also for fear of possible social revolts). The average worker will not be aware of the changes that are coming. And then practically overnight, companies will begin to replace meat and blood workers with AI models.

When society is finally aware of change, it will be too late, Amodei prophesies. And when in a world dominated by AI, cancer could mutate in a perfectly curable disease, economic growth could reach an annual ratio of 10% and budgets managed by states would be predictably much more balanced, 20% of the population would be at the mercy of unemployment.

«As creators of this technology, we have the duty and responsibility of being honest in relation to what avecina. And I don’t think people are really aware, ”says Amodei.

Do you have the signs of becoming the dystopian scenario raised by the CEO of Anthropic?

It is surprising that, although Amodei speaks openly of the dangers that AI brings potentially under the arm, the company that directs as CEO is simultaneously spurring the technology that could end up causing a bloody extermination of employment. In this sense, The most critical voices cannot be asked why Amodei does not simply closure Anthropic or why it does not become actively involved in a campaign that advocates a stricter regulation of AI.

Besides, Some experts are markedly skeptical with the thiefs predictions on the table by Amodei And they believe that, although the great language models are making progress in some tasks, their weaknesses in the technical level (hallucinations, for example) will only increase instead of decrease in the coming years. And we must also consider to what extent the productivity improves today in the bosom of the companies thanks to the AI ​​(whose “superpowers” could have been exaggerated to the infinite and beyond, according to some studies).

Another problem raised by Amodei’s statements is that their warnings could paradoxically have the opposite effect and unleashed those consequences of which the CEO of Anthropic warns. In practice, they are not only the abilities of AI that translate eventually in the loss of jobs, but rather the confidence of the great corporations in the narrative that AI will advance very soon in intelligence to humans of flesh and blood.

It also seems that Amodei Yerra at least one of its predictions and, although it ensures that the general public is not aware of the threat raised by AI, different studies have repeatedly shown that The workers are concerned (and much) the eventual harmful impact of automation on their jobs.