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Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are both walking back AI jobs apocalypse predictions

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Post by foolswisdom »

simonw wrote: post #37

OK, this is weird. The article says: > OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, in an interview with Commonwealth Bank of Australia CEO Matt Comyn on Tuesday, said he was “pretty wrong” about AI’s economic impact—a reversal from his June 2025 warnings that entry-level roles were at serious risk. But the link to the interview goes to this 2m11s YouTube video, and he doesn't use say anything of the sort: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=…

There's a partial corresponding quote at https://www.commbank.com.au/articles/newsroom/2026/05/sam-al....

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Post by ziocancer »

copx wrote: post #23
SirFatty wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"They are human after all.." Hahaha! Good one!

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Dear god please STFU!

Opposing genocide? Antisemitic! Opposing AI billionaire CEOs? Antisemitic!

We live in a world with other humans. Just because someone or something is Jewish, it doesn’t give them carte blanche to treat the rest of us like trash.

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Post by eloisius »

blitzar wrote: post #7

They won't be trillionaires with that attitude. They could have kept saying the line "Ai will replace all the jobs by the end of the year " for another 20 years.

“Companies that use AI well will replace the ones that don’t”

I’d type that in alternating caps but I’m on mobile.

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Post by bcrosby95 »

NateEag wrote: post #27
Analemma_ wrote: post #2

Of course, the fact that the statements they made confidently for years are now hastily getting undone in the face of public backlash only further cements their reputation as snakes who can't be trusted farther than one can throw a bowling ball. For a while there I actually respected Amodei for sticking to his guns on the job loss thing, it seemed like it was his genuinely-held belief and he was going to keep saying…

Is it possible Amodei has revised his opinion after his predictions were empirically proved false? I haven't looked at how long he's been predicting job destruction, so I don't know if that explanation fits the facts.

As a general rule the least charitable interpretation of a CEO's words are probably the most accurate. Considering the increasing backlash against AI this sounds more like a PR move than a change in actual belief.

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Post by datakan »

tunesmith wrote: post #30

Unfortunately it will take longer for our bosses to walk it back. I feel like I'm fighting the battle daily, telling execs what kind of work LLMs do not replace... it's very slippery, they keep on doing the rhetorical texas two-step - I don't think they even realize they're doing it. We communicate that LLM is amplifying, they hear it can replace. "No, we need humans to help with specs" "But AI can help with that." "…

It tells you a lot about your execs and how little they care, either for their employees or their customers. The quarterly profits are their God and they will worship at the altar of the stock price.

Instead of finding ways to make AI enhance their employees and make them more productive, they immediately jump to ways to eliminate employees. It's the opposite of a growth mentallity.

I'd love for these executives to show me a time when investing in people was the wrong choice. I've never seen a company punished for doing the right thing, caring for humans and providing a good work environment. This suicidal tendency in the corporate world to constantly decimate your workforce every cycle is just mind boggling and the fact the stock market responds to it so positively is horrifying.

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Post by 2fer »

bcrosby95 wrote: post #44
NateEag wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is it possible Amodei has revised his opinion after his predictions were empirically proved false? I haven't looked at how long he's been predicting job destruction, so I don't know if that explanation fits the facts.

As a general rule the least charitable interpretation of a CEO's words are probably the most accurate. Considering the increasing backlash against AI this sounds more like a PR move than a change in actual belief.

Their identity in regards to history is centered on destroying jobs. So they will never let that go.

Its gonna be funny seeing the eventual ego melt down when the labour market continues going on.

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Post by citrin_ru »

blitzar wrote: post #7

They won't be trillionaires with that attitude. They could have kept saying the line "Ai will replace all the jobs by the end of the year " for another 20 years.

A significant job loss will trigger a deep recession which will eventually hit most AI customers so they will have too few customers to be profitable. The best (for AI business) scenario is when productivity is increased without mass unemployment.

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Post by metalliqaz »

Public sentiment has turned strongly against them. They can try to take it back, but I don't think they will be successful. Nobody is buying the fiction anymore. Everyone knows that any proceeds from the technology will not be shared. The ownership class will take everything and leave the ecological impact to be dealt with by the same people they laid off.

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Post by cactusplant7374 »

simonw wrote: post #37

OK, this is weird. The article says: > OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, in an interview with Commonwealth Bank of Australia CEO Matt Comyn on Tuesday, said he was “pretty wrong” about AI’s economic impact—a reversal from his June 2025 warnings that entry-level roles were at serious risk. But the link to the interview goes to this 2m11s YouTube video, and he doesn't use say anything of the sort: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=…

Altman has said he thought AI would have a bigger impact.

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Post by 2fer »

energy123 wrote: post #20
dbvn wrote: post #5

the damage is done. Why did they ever think it was a good idea to brag that they were going to destroy all middle/upper class jobs?

Because it helps to raise capital at low costs if your investors and creditors think you're going to replace all labor.

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