Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, issued a stark warning about the future of human employment amid the development of artificial intelligence. Anthropic is among the world’s top artificial intelligence creators. Amodei warned artificial intelligence could eliminate half of all entry-level white-collar jobs and spark massive unemployment of 10-20% within five years. “AI is starting to get better than humans at almost all intellectual tasks, and we’re going to collectively, as a society, grapple with it,” Amodei told CNN‘s Anderson Cooper. “AI is going to get better at what everyone does, including what I do, including what other CEOs do,” he added. Amodei said AI has rapidly progressed from the level of a “smart high school student” to the level of a “smart college student.” He warned entry-level jobs in finance, consulting, tech, and similar fields will be on the chopping block. “It’s hard to predict the future but we may indeed have a serious employment crisis on our hands,” Amodei said. WATCH: Dario Amodei says AI has advanced from a smart high-schooler to a smart college student in two years it could help cure cancer, fight Alzheimer’s, and lower energy costs. but it also puts entry-level jobs in finance, consulting, and tech at risk, shrinking job opportunities… pic.twitter.com/5KwoHGLQ10 — Haider. (@slow_developer) May 30, 2025 Per CNN: It’s not the first dire warning about how rapidly advancing AI could upend the economy in the coming years. Academics and economists have also cautioned that AI could replace some jobs or tasks in the coming years, with varying degrees of seriousness. Earlier this year, a World Economic Forum survey showed that 41% of employers plan to downsize their workforce because of AI automation by 2030. But Amodei’s prediction is notable because it’s coming from one of the industry’s top leaders and because of the scale of disruption it foretells. It also comes as Anthropic is now selling AI technology on the promise that it can work nearly the length of a typical human workday. The historical narrative about how tech advancement works is that technology would automate lower-paying, lower-skilled jobs, and the displaced human workers can be trained to take more lucrative positions. However, if Amodei is correct, AI could wipe out more specialized white-collar roles that may have required years of expensive training and education — and those workers may not be so easily retrained for equal or higher-paying jobs. Amodei suggested that lawmakers may even need to consider levying a tax on AI companies. “If AI creates huge total wealth, a lot of that will, by default, go to the AI companies and less to ordinary people,” he said. “So, you know, it’s definitely not in my economic interest to say that, but I think this is something we should consider and I think it shouldn’t be a partisan thing.” In an interview with Axios, Amodei said lawmakers are oblivious to the troubling employment outlook. “Most of them are unaware that this is about to happen,” Amodei told the outlet. “It sounds crazy, and people just don’t believe it,” he added. “War Room” host Steve Bannon also spoke with Axios about the threat AI imposes to entry-level jobs. EXCLUSIVE: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has a blunt warning: AI could wipe out half of entry-level white-collar jobs, spiking unemployment to 10-20% in the next 1-5 years. Few are paying attention: Politicians don't get it. CEOs are afraid to talk about it.https://t.co/xznSYntxNZ — Axios (@axios) May 28, 2025 Axios reports: President Trump has been quiet on the job risks from AI. But Steve Bannon — a top official in Trump’s first term, whose “War Room” is one of the most powerful MAGA podcasts — says AI job-killing, which gets virtually no attention now, will be a major issue in the 2028 presidential campaign. “I don’t think anyone is taking into consideration how administrative, managerial and tech jobs for people under 30 — entry-level jobs that are so important in your 20s — are going to be eviscerated,” Bannon told us. Amodei — who had just rolled out the latest versions of his own AI, which can code at near-human levels — said the technology holds unimaginable possibilities to unleash mass good and bad at scale: “Cancer is cured, the economy grows at 10% a year, the budget is balanced — and 20% of people don’t have jobs.” That’s one very possible scenario rattling in his mind as AI power expands exponentially. Amodei agreed to go on the record with a deep concern that other leading AI executives have told us privately. Even those who are optimistic AI will unleash unthinkable cures and unimaginable economic growth fear dangerous short-term pain — and a possible job bloodbath during Trump’s term. “We, as the producers of this technology, have a duty and an obligation to be honest about what is coming,” Amodei told us. “I don’t think this is on people’s radar.” “It’s a very strange set of dynamics,” he added, “where we’re saying: ‘You should be worried about where the technology we’re building is going.'” Critics reply: “We don’t believe you. You’re just hyping it up.” He says the skeptics should ask themselves: “Well, what if they’re right?”