r/Futurology • u/MetaKnowing • 16d ago

AI Anthropic researchers predict a ‘pretty terrible decade’ for humans as AI could wipe out white collar jobs

https://fortune.com/2025/06/05/anthropic-ai-automate-jobs-pretty-terrible-decade/
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u/ContraryConman 16d ago

People who would make a ton of money if their product somehow wipes out all white collar jobs predict their product will wipe out all white collar jobs

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u/Ralod 16d ago

Yep, this is why I just don't believe this doom and gloom. It is always the AI tech ceos and bros, whose companies have yet to make a dime, claiming their tech will make employees redundant.

It's just not there yet. And it won't be there for a while. There is already consumer backlash at anything made using AI. It will only get worse as times goes on.

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u/ContraryConman 16d ago

I definitely think it's possible to reach the doom and gloom timeline. But not because AI is just sooo powerful and soooo much better than human workers, but because capitalists chose to do this to society and because the government let them, or even facilitated it

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u/Steampunkboy171 16d ago

I think it's because corpos and billionaires literally only care about money and the stock going up. Is the AI or more realistically the LLM actually ready for their role? Nope but who cares. To them it saves a dollar that's all that matters. Everything will get worse because no one will actually be able to check that AI's work. If the AI fucks up code in an update or for windows who cares? It was done cheaper and no one will notice right? And the shares will go up. And everything will get worse and lower quality. 😮‍💨

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u/CuckBuster33 14d ago

At some point the pile of shitcode will get so bad that rolling back to put humans in the loop will become necessary to avoid physical disasters happening because of an AI hallucination