Overview

• OpenAI chief Sam Altman declared that AI has reached a ‘take-off’ phase, marking the start of a sweeping redefinition of work.
• Amazon’s Andy Jassy expects the e-commerce giant to shrink its workforce as AI drives efficiency gains, and Salesforce’s Marc Benioff says AI already performs 30 to 50 percent of the company’s work.
• A MIT-Stanford field study showed AI tools boosting customer-support productivity by 14 percent overall and 34 percent for less experienced agents, and Goldman Sachs forecasts a 7 percent lift in global GDP by 2030.
• Anthropic co-founder Dario Amodei warns that up to half of all entry-level office jobs could disappear within five years as automation accelerates.
• Roughly half of U.S. workers report anxiety over AI job displacement, driving calls for large-scale reskilling programs even as new roles like prompt engineers and model-bias auditors emerge.