The Impending White Collar Bloodbath

Thursday, May 29, 2025

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 | Reply | Newsworthy 2

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 | Reply | Newsworthy 2

AI is trash.

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

"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 | Reply

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 | Reply

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 | Reply

#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 | Reply

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 | Reply

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

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

@#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 | Reply | Newsworthy 2

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

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

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 | Reply | Newsworthy 1

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 | Reply

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 | Reply

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 | Reply

@#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 | Reply

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 | Reply

WTF?

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

@#17

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

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

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