Dario Amodei, CEO of AI research company Anthropic, has warned that artificial intelligence could lead to mass unemployment and a major transformation of the labor market in the coming years. He estimates that up to 50% of entry-level positions could be affected, with the unemployment rate rising to 10–20%.
According to Amodei, a rapid and largely unnoticed reduction in jobs is already underway in sectors like technology, finance, law, consulting, and other industries dominated by white-collar roles. He believes young professionals and early-career workers are particularly vulnerable.
Amodei emphasizes that large language models being developed by companies such as OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic are already beginning to outperform humans in cognitive tasks. Meanwhile, U.S. authorities have so far avoided regulating the technology, fearing either public panic or falling behind China in the global AI race.
While AI is currently used primarily to assist with tasks rather than fully replace workers, Amodei believes that this balance will shift rapidly toward full automation—and that this shift may happen within the next two years or even sooner.
