Thursday, May 29, 2025

The Impending White Collar Bloodbath

Dario Amodei, -- CEO of Anthropic, one of the world's most powerful creators of artificial intelligence -- has a blunt, scary warning for the U.S. government and all of us: AI could wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs ...

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I have no doubt they'll cut the jobs.

I have serious doubts that AI will be competent enough to do the job as well. The AI field chronically over promises and underdelivers.

#1 | Posted by jpw at 2025-05-29 09:50 AM

I have serious doubts that AI will be competent enough to do the job as well.

Look no further than United Healthcare using AI with a 95% error rate to deny claims. When this error rate was pointed out to the CEO, he told them to continue using it.

#2 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-05-29 10:15 AM

AI is trash.

#3 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-05-29 11:25 AM

"AI could wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs"

That's great! Who needs jobs anyway?

#4 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-29 12:14 PM

#1

AI may be under performing at the moment, but when quantum computing is front and center you will eat your words.

#5 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-05-29 02:48 PM

AI models appear to have great success in matters requiring a great deal of computing power, e.g., long-term weather predictions and pounding out millions of lines of programming code. The intuitive parts that humans add, e.g., reading a radar screen and calling out to a storm-chaser, or de-bugging and enhancing code to make it run better from the perspective of human interaction, are matters done best by humans. When I think of 'entry level white collar jobs' I think of people who supervise small work groups, and there is no AI model that can do that...

#6 | Posted by catdog at 2025-05-29 02:53 PM

#6: Magazines like Alfred Hitchcock Murder Mysteries or Ellery Queen Mysteries have strict caveats about submitting manuscripts that were written with AI. The editors threaten a lifetime ban for authors who use AI in their writing. When you listen to AI-generated music or read AI-generated text, you can tell that something is a bit off. The same applies with AI-generated faces: this-person-does-not-exist.com

#7 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-05-29 03:06 PM

AI could will wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs

And it's not going to stop there.

#8 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-05-29 03:16 PM

I Want My, I Want My,..UBI.

I Want My, I Want My,..UBI.

#9 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-05-29 03:27 PM

@#1 ... I have no doubt they'll cut the jobs.

I have serious doubts that AI will be competent enough to do the job as well. ...

Another aspect of this ...

If AI supposedly is taking over entry-level jobs, what pool of talent will companies have to grow into more senior talent?

Or do the companies expect AI to eventually take over all the positions in a company?

#10 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-05-29 03:31 PM

Whether they expect ai to take over or not, it's going to.

#11 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-05-29 03:35 PM

but when quantum computing is front and center you will eat your words.

#5 | Posted by lfthndthrds

There are many "but when..." scenarios that will make me eat my words.

However, the current forced implementation of AI as a pure bean counter move is premature and problematic.

#12 | Posted by jpw at 2025-05-29 04:45 PM

aka the impending red hat blood bath.

There's some Buyer's Remorse going around, and it's getting stronger.

#13 | Posted by Corky at 2025-05-29 04:47 PM


AI may be under performing at the moment, but when quantum computing is front and center you will eat your words.
#5 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

This will completely ruin everything.


However, the current forced implementation of AI as a pure bean counter move is premature and problematic.
#12 | POSTED BY JPW

What does that mean? Its doing work, its eliminating positions in HR, and management.

Currently the issue is you still need a person to give it agency. So one worker/manager is now doing the work of historically 5 employees.

We see this in software, where you can prompt the need for some function to do something and it gives it its best shot. No different than a Jr engineer, might not work, might need some messaging again no different than a JR engineer.

The end is nigh! Learn to weld!!

#14 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-05-29 04:59 PM

14. For a few generations, I've told any young American who will listen, "If you want a job forever in America, build roads."

#15 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-05-29 06:00 PM

@#14 ... Its doing work, its eliminating positions in HR, and management. ...

AI seems to be taking jobs from more entry-level positions. And that's not a surprise.

Start first with the less demanding jobs, then move up the ladder.

But, as I implied in #10, where does AI stop as it moves up the ladder?

How long before AI replaces the CEO of a company?





#16 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-05-29 09:44 PM

The pool is within the code itself... and if it/they - the code grown - can keep or increase my direct deposit "staff" pay.... bring it.

But won't the once - if ever - achieved AGI imbued - ironically - have similar real world deficiencies and character flaws as the "seniors" they might replace???

#17 | Posted by South_American at 2025-05-29 10:37 PM

WTF?

#18 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-05-29 10:41 PM

@#17

????

#19 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-05-29 10:41 PM

18. It's STD/Babbles with hyphens instead of line breaks.

#20 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-05-30 07:27 AM

How long before AI replaces the CEO of a company?

Honestly, doing that first would probably show the greatest gains and improvements.

#21 | Posted by jpw at 2025-05-30 09:36 AM

I am old and tired, and am scared of death, of course, but I do understand that I may be quite lucky to not have to live through the 2030's. With no safety net, and corporate boardrooms holding life and death power over the poor who need jobs but cannot afford to fight for jobs with those living in Vietnam, or China, or India...

#22 | Posted by Hughmass at 2025-05-31 08:48 AM

Fortunately, manufacturing is coming back to the US. There will be plenty of jobs. Beautiful.

#23 | Posted by madbomber at 2025-05-31 09:16 AM

Well, there's all that farm labor to replace the Meskins.

#24 | Posted by morris at 2025-05-31 01:20 PM

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