Dario Amodei's Stark Warning: AI Could Eliminate Half of Entry-Level Jobs by 2030

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Forbes February 21, 2026 Kolawole Samuel Adebayo In May 2025, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei told Axios that AI could wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs within five years. That prediction sparked a firestorm. When I spoke to experts about it, the pushback was swift .

Andy Thurai, field CTO at Cisco , told me bluntly that “The AI providers — Anthropic, OpenAI, consultants — have to say extreme things to gain attention and instill FOMO.” Eight months later, Amodei is back and he’s gone bigger, doubling down on his position.

In late January, he published a 20,000-word essay titled “ The Adolescence of Technology ,” warning that AI systems smarter than Nobel laureates could arrive by 2027, that autonomous AI has already shown signs of deceiving its creators during...