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What Happens When AI Replaces Workers? | TIME

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On Wednesday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei declared AI could eliminate half of all entry level white collar jobs within five years. Last week, a senior LinkedIn executive reported that AI is already starting to take jobs from new grads. In April, Fiverr’s CEO made it clear: “AI is coming for your job. Heck, it’s coming for my job too.” Even the new Pope is warning about AI’s dramatic potential to reshape our economy. Why do they think this? The stated goal of the major AI companies is to build artificial general intelligence, or AGI, defined as “a highly autonomous system that outperforms humans at most economically valuable work.” Advertisement Advertisement This isn’t empty rhetoric—companies are spending over a trillion dollars to build towards AGI. And governments around the world are supporting the race to develop this technology. They’re on track to succeed. Today’s AI models can score as well as humans on many standardized tests. They are better competitive programmers than most p

On Wednesday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei declared AI could eliminate half of all entry level white collar jobs within five years. Last week, a senior LinkedIn executive reported that AI is already starting to take jobs from new grads. In April, Fiverr’s CEO made it clear: “AI is coming for your job. Heck, it’s coming for my job too.” Even the new Pope is warning about AI’s dramatic potential to reshape our economy. Why do they think this? The stated goal of the major AI companies is to build artificial general intelligence, or AGI, defined as “a highly autonomous system that outperforms humans

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