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Fortune reports that Amodei made the 50%-of-white-collar-jobs warning and later reframed it, while Altman said that many jobs would go away and later called himself pretty wrong; it does not report Altman making the same 50% claim. DIRECT_TEXT

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Source: Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are both walking back AI jobs apocalypse predictions as they eye IPOs · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:daca5a5c7a3adf8bff7b8690d43a6bc98c1ab1c67164abf04af0a3502ec3d4d1

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman ... said he was “pretty wrong” about AI’s economic impact ... Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, who once claimed AI could eliminate 50% of white-collar jobs ... A year ago, Altman told his brother Jack on the Uncapped podcast: “A lot of jobs will go away...” ... Amodei’s evolution ... While he previously claimed AI could wipe out 50% of white-collar jobs, he reframed automation ...