The ability of AI displace humans at various tasks is accelerating quickly, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said at the Axios AI+ DC Summit on Wednesday.
Why it matters: Amodei and others have previously warned of the possibility that up to half of white-collar jobs could be wiped out by AI over the next five years.
- The speed of that displacement could require government intervention to help support the workforce, executives said.
What they’re saying: “As with most things, when an exponential is moving very quickly, you can’t be sure,” Amodei said. “I think it is likely enough to happen that we felt there was a need to warn the world about it and to speak honestly.”
- Amodei said the government may need to step in and support people as AI quickly displaces human work.
- Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark, who oversees the company’s policy operation, added “you need some kind of policy response at the scale of disruption we expect in the next five years.”
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