Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is warning of the prevalence of artificial intelligence and human beings’ willingness to allow it to take over. Amodei says that if things continue on the current trajectory, AI will eliminate half of white collar jobs.

A leading artificial intelligence executive is sounding the alarm over a potential “white-collar bloodbath” that could upend professions from law to finance, erasing up to half of entry-level jobs by 2030. Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, a Silicon Valley AI giant, warned in recent interviews that unless policymakers and businesses act swiftly, unemployment could soar to 10-20%, transforming the economy in ways few are prepared for, according to a report by Breitbart.

“We, as the producers of this technology, have a duty and an obligation to be honest about what is coming,” Amodei said. “I don’t think this is on people’s radar. It’s a very strange set of dynamics, where we’re saying: ‘You should be worried about where the technology we’re building is going,’” the Anthropic CEO added, acknowledging that he is building the very technology he suspects will soon and swiftly transform society.

It won’t take long before business leaders will see the savings associated with replacing humans with AI, and will implement this on a massive scale, the Anthropic CEO said, adding that he believes this will occur almost overnight, with the public only realizing the calamity when it’s too late to speak up or do much about it.

Already, many fields are experiencing the outsourcing to AI. This has the potential to open up other pathways of employment, but it also threatens to diminish and eliminate human creativity in the process.

“We’ve talked to scores of CEOs at companies of various sizes and across many industries,” Axios reported. “Every single one of them is working furiously to figure out when and how agents or other AI technology can displace human workers at scale.”

What do you think? Will humanity strike a balance between using AI and the human creative process?