Thoughts on the AI Job-Pocalypse
By now you may have seen one of numerous media reports recently that artificial intelligence is poised to decimate the white-collar job market in coming years. I’m not sure I agree with those dire reports, but clearly AI is going to transform how white-collar workers — such as compliance and audit professionals — arc through your careers. Let’s talk about that. One good place to start is an interview that Dario Amodei, CEO of AI software firm Anthropic, gave to Axios the other week. Amodei predicted that AI could wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs, and cause unemployment to spike as high as 20 percent by 2030. Most people “are unaware that this is about to happen,” Amodei said. “It sounds crazy, and people just don’t believe it.” Other recent headlines do give Amodei ammunition here. Procter & Gamble has announced that it will lay off 7,000 people , roughly 15 percent of its non-manufacturing workforce, as part of a two-year restructuring pro...