Overview

• Dario Amodei said U.S. unemployment could rise from 4.2% today to as high as 20% over the next one to five years if AI automation accelerates unchecked.
• Entry-level roles in tech, finance and law are especially vulnerable as AI systems begin handling tasks from coding to financial analysis.
• Amodei urged executives and policymakers to stop downplaying the scale of potential layoffs and to develop transparent strategies for workforce transition.
• He predicted that AI would simultaneously drive economic growth, fuel medical breakthroughs like cancer cures and help balance national budgets.
• Anthropic is racing against Google, Meta and OpenAI to develop artificial general intelligence capable of human-level cognition.