Amodei AI Jobs Prediction: Damage Starts at the Bottom

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei predicted AI could eliminate roughly half of entry-level white-collar jobs and push unemployment to 10-20% within 1-5 years. The article argues the exact percentage matters less than the signal it sends: when a CEO of his stature says this publicly, it acts as a permission slip for managers to cut junior hiring and replace training pipelines with AI tools, hollowing out the career ladder from the bottom before actual layoffs begin.