Why AI won’t wipe out white-collar jobs
The technology will expand their scope and raise their value
THE warnings are piling up. In the past week or so Kristalina Georgieva, head of the IMF, has said that artificial intelligence is “hitting the labour market like a tsunami”; Jamie Dimon, boss of JPMorgan Chase, has forecast that America’s biggest bank would soon need fewer employees; and Dario Amodei, who runs Anthropic, has predicted the technology his company is at the forefront of developing could wipe out “half of all entry-level white-collar jobs”.
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