Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned that within the next five years, AI could eradicate half of all entry-level jobs and increase unemployment by up to 20%. University of Louisville professor and computer scientist Roman Yampolskiy makes a darker prediction, claiming that 99% of jobs will be eliminated by robots and AI in the next five years.

These appear to be scary times indeed – AI is now creating images of people with the correct number of fingers and the future that was promised where AI takes our jobs is no longer some ominous event in the distance. Computer nerds just couldn’t help themselves.

We’ll start by noting that the ludicrous prediction by Professor Yampolskiy is wildly implausible and perhaps even stated in bad faith.

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