Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says AI has now entered a phase of rapid scaling and could supercharge global productivity within years.
Speaking at the Dreamforce 2025 conference, Amodei says AI’s influence on output, cost and labor could soon rival, or even surpass, the most transformative technological revolutions in history.
“AI is really gonna, you know, it’s gonna scale to the moon, and it’s really gonna be, you know, this whole thing is gonna reshape the economy. It’ll take a few years, but it’s gonna reshape the economy. And we’re there or almost there now.”
He points to early evidence of that shift inside Anthropic and across partner firms, saying the company’s latest large language model, Claude, is already handling the vast majority of code generation.
“Six months ago, I made this prediction that in six months, 90% of code would be written by AI models. Some people think that prediction is wrong, but within Anthropic and within a number of companies that we work with, that is absolutely true.”
Amodei describes the change not as job replacement but as a reallocation of human labor.
“Under comparative advantage, if Claude is writing 90% of the code, what that means usually is you need just as many software engineers. You might need more because they can then be more leveraged. They can focus on the 10% that’s editing the code or writing the 10% that’s the hardest, or supervising a group of AI models.
And so what happens is you can just end up being 10 times more productive because the remaining 10% is now a complement to the AI system that’s getting much better at what it’s producing.”
Amodei notes that the current phase represents a balance between human oversight and AI autonomy, a collaboration that could eventually reach full automation.
“It’s not a replacement. It’s a rebalancing. Now, as that 90% goes to 95%, 99%, totally automated end-to-end, there may be some point at which all bets are off.”
The Anthropic chief warns that the next two to five years could bring widespread disruption across the labor market as AI lowers costs and spreads through every sector of the economy.
“I do worry as we get out to two years, five years, that across the economy… There will be enough disruption that will have a kind of labor disruption that operates faster, that is broader across the economy because it relates to all costs.”
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