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Nov 6th 2025|San Francisco|4 min read

Tech bosses are rarely restrained when discussing artificial intelligence. Over the past year they have filled conference halls and social-media feeds with visions of an AI job apocalypse. Sam Altman, OpenAI’s boss, has warned that “entire classes of jobs will go away”. Dario Amodei, chief executive of Anthropic, predicts that AI could wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs and drive unemployment into the double digits. Elon Musk, never to be outdone, recently proclaimed that “AI and robots will replace all jobs.”

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