Openai hasn't seen the sky fall into the white-collar job market, as is the case with its competitor humanity.
“We don't see any evidence of this,” Openai COO Brad LightCap said in live taping of The New York Times' “hard fork” podcast.
LightCap was particularly asked about the recent predictions of humanity CEO Dario Amodei that artificial intelligence will wipe out 50% of entry-level white-collar jobs within the next five years.
“Dario is a scientist and I hope he takes an evidence-based approach to these types of things,” Wrightcap said.
Openai has not seen evidence of impending fate for such employees, Lightcap said.
“We work with all our businesses under the sun,” he said. “We see the problems and opportunities to deploy AI to all companies on the planet, but we haven't seen any evidence that people are sort of wholesale on behalf of entry-level jobs.”
Last month, Amodei told Axios it was making predictions that motivate the government and his competitors to prepare for the future. Humanity spokesman did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Business Insider
“Most of them don't know this is going to happen,” Amodei said. “It sounds crazy, and people don't believe it.”
Some executives, including Shopify and Duolingo leaders, want managers to show AI can't play a new role. Among the key names of technology is quite debate about what the future holds.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is more optimistic that AI will restructure jobs rather than take employment. LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman believes that even if it's not “Bloodbath,” they underestimate the impact of AI.
Like Huang, LightCap sees big changes coming, but he believes that society can “manage through it.”
Openai CEO Sam Altman reflected LightCap and said it shows history that innovations like AI will lead to more job creation. Altman said something like the predicted immediate upheaval Amodei is not realistic either.
“I don't think that's how society actually works,” said Altman, who attended LightCap for a panel interview. “Even if this technology is ready for it, there's a lot of mass out there that social inertia that will help in this case.”
