Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei issues another warning on the impact of artificial intelligence on the labor force.
In an interview with CNBC-TV18, Amodei says AI is both broad and fast-moving, warning that disruption may arrive sooner than many expect.
“What I do know is there will be potentially a lot of disruption because the technology is moving so fast. What is different about AI than previous technologies…? What’s different is that it’s moving quickly, and it’s broad because AI is a general technology.
What we need to do more than trying to figure out exactly what form the disruption will take is help people to adapt.”
He offers a concrete example from inside Anthropic, noting that some employees can adapt to new roles based on their existing skills.
“I can see the day when, even within, say, Anthropic, we need fewer software engineers than we have today because the models are better at automating software engineering end-to-end.
One thing is, there’s this notion of the forward-deployed engineer. Someone who has technical skills but who works with customers to enable technical systems and technical solutions with those customers. And as Anthropic grows and has more customers, there’s going to be a need for a lot of them because the number of customers we need to talk to is large.”
But Amodei says it is within the realm of possibility for AI to go against previous tech cycles when net job gains were realized.
“I can’t guarantee that more jobs will be created than are destroyed. We have to make that true. We have to figure out how to make that true. And it’s going to be a challenge. But the earlier we see it, the more we’re honest about it, the better the chance we can address it.”
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