Sam Altman Is "Delighted" His AI Jobs Apocalypse Prediction Was Wrong
Altman said entry-level white-collar jobs have proved more resilient to automation than he expected, and he no longer expects a jobs apocalypse.
- On Tuesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman publicly admitted he was wrong about AI's impact on jobs during a May 26 virtual interview at Commonwealth Bank of Australia conference in Sydney, saying the anticipated AI 'jobs apocalypse' has not materialized.
- In past interviews, Altman suggested AI could replace 30 to 40% of work tasks 'in the not too distant future,' fueling widespread fears of mass white-collar disruption across finance, law and professional services sectors.
- Testing AI responses to his own Slack and email messages, Altman discovered that human interaction remains irreplaceable; he told Commonwealth Bank of Australia CEO Matt Comyn he was 'delighted to be wrong' about displacement speed.
- Rather than destroying jobs, automation will expand work and multiply productivity, Altman now argues, predicting the remaining 10% of automated tasks would 'expand to be 100% of what people do and kind of 10-times their productivity.'
- Despite 115,000 tech layoffs through May 2026, the Yale Budget Lab found no significant occupational changes in high-AI-exposure jobs since ChatGPT's late 2022 launch; U.S. employment has grown 145% since 1962, adding 200,000 data center jobs since 2022.
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Sam Altman is "delighted" his AI jobs apocalypse prediction was wrong
Speaking virtually at a Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) conference in Sydney, Australia, Altman admitted that his early prediction that entire job classes would be wiped out by AI has not come true – at least not yet.Read Entire Article
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