Overview

• Ford CEO Jim Farley warned that AI adoption will halve U.S. white-collar roles while Amazon’s Andy Jassy predicts corporate headcounts will contract as efficiency gains rise.
• Salesforce’s Marc Benioff said AI already performs 30 to 50 percent of the company’s tasks, highlighting its accelerating integration into everyday work.
• Anthropic co-founder Dario Amodei and the McKinsey Global Institute project that half of entry-level office positions could vanish within five years and that up to 30 percent of U.S. work hours may be automated by 2030.
• A joint MIT–Stanford field study found GPT-powered assistants boost ticket resolution by 14 percent overall and 34 percent for less experienced agents, and Goldman Sachs forecasts a 7 percent global GDP lift by decade’s end.
• A Pew Research Center survey shows roughly half of U.S. workers worry about AI in the workplace and few anticipate that automation will create more long-term job opportunities.