Dario Amodei · Sam Altman · Anthropic · OpenAI · Fortune Technology
Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are both walking back their AI jobs apocalypse prophecies as they eye blockbuster IPOs
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Two of the most influential CEOs in tech spent the last year warning that AI would gut white-collar employment.
Key facts
- And the 10% kind of expands to be 100% of what people do and kind of 10-times their productivity
- Tech layoffs through May 2026 have passed 115,000, already approaching the 124,000 logged in all of 2025, with Meta, Amazon, and Snap among those citing AI as a driver of cuts
- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Bank of Australia CEO Matt Comyn on Tuesday, said he was “pretty wrong” about AI’s economic impact—a reversal from his June 2025 warnings that entry-level roles were at serious
- He cited Goldman Sachs research showing data center construction alone has added 200,000 jobs since 2022
Summary
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Bank of Australia CEO Matt Comyn on Tuesday, said he was “pretty wrong” about AI’s economic impact—a reversal from his June 2025 warnings that entry-level roles were at serious risk. “I’m delighted to be wrong about this,” Altman told Comyn. Altman added that he’s taken a lot of flack for his hype, but better safe than sorry.”People are like, ‘Oh you could have saved the world a lot of fear mongering and a lot of doom and gloom’ but at the time the reporter was like, ‘the reporter see this is a real risk they should probably talk about it.’ and it still may.” Both OpenAI and Anthropic are reportedly preparing to launch their respective IPOs this year, each company with an estimated valuation of $1 trillion.