Anthropic's Amodei suggests universal basic income could offset 'intrinsic' AI-related job losses - Business Insider
Dario Amodei says he's not trying to be a "prophet of doom" about AI and jobs, but the Anthropic CEO is warning that mass displacement may not be a temporary growing pain of the technology — it may be part of what makes AI work. In a new policy essay, Amodei wrote that there is a "decent possibility" that, despite efforts to soften the blow, AI could cause "significant enduring job loss" — and that this "may be an intrinsic property of the technology and the way it broadly replicates human cognition." The argument reframes one of the AI industry's most uncomfortable questions.