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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei discusses the potential for AI to drive high GDP growth while also increasing unemployment and inequality, noting that software engineering roles are already being transformed as models like Opus take over coding tasks.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei: "AI will take us to a world where we have very high GDP growth and potentially also very high unemployment and inequality. We've never had a technology that's this disruptive. So the idea that we could have 5% or 10% GDP growth, but also, 10% unemployment, it's not logically inconsistent at all. It's just never happened that way before. And I'm really quite, for those both reasons, excited and worried. I have some engineering leads within Anthropic who have basically said to me, I don't write any code anymore. I just let Opus do the work and I edit it. There are still things for the software engineers to do, right? It's like, even if the software engineers are only doing 10% of it, they still have a job to do or they can take a level up. That's not going to last forever. The models are going to do more and more. " --- From "The Wall Street Journal" YT channel (link in comment)
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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei:

“AI will take us to a world where we have very high GDP growth and potentially also very high unemployment and inequality.

We’ve never had a technology that’s this disruptive. So the idea that we could have 5% or 10% GDP growth, but also, 10% unemployment, it’s not logically inconsistent at all. It’s just never happened that way before. And I’m really quite, for those both reasons, excited and worried.

I have some engineering leads within Anthropic who have basically said to me, I don’t write any code anymore. I just let Opus do the work and I edit it.

There are still things for the software engineers to do, right? It’s like, even if the software engineers are only doing 10% of it, they still have a job to do or they can take a level up.

That’s not going to last forever. The models are going to do more and more. “

From “The Wall Street Journal” YT channel (link in comment)

Rohan Paul (@rohanpaul_ai): Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei : “Software is going to become cheap, maybe essentially free.

The premise that you need to amortize a piece of software you build across millions of users, that may start to be false.

But at the same time, there are whole jobs, whole careers that

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