Key Takeaways Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay warning that AI could displace half of entry-level white-collar jobs within five years. The CEO of Anthropic—the AI company valued at about $350 billion—warns that AI could create a permanent underclass of workers. AI's takeover of jobs will advance, he wrote, "from the bottom of the ability ladder to the top," making scores of jobs obsolete. Why This Matters To You When globalization gutted manufacturing in the 1990s, displaced workers were told to retrain for office jobs. An ongoing study by the Yale Budget Lab on AI's effects on jobs has reached similar conclusions.