Feb 27, 2026 – 5.00am
Davos in January was a showstopper. United States President Donald Trump belittled European leaders and threatened to seize Greenland. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney rallied stunned allies to wake up to the ruptured world order. And a charismatic tech leader had the financiers, corporate titans and political elite poring over his every word. His message was existential.
Dario Amodei, the chief executive of artificial intelligence giant Anthropic, was whisked through the Swiss alpine village from stage to stage, painting a “nightmare” scenario where 10 million-odd people would enjoy half of the globe’s economic growth, and warning that automation was coming for white-collar jobs. First to go in the knowledge worker armageddon, in as little as six to 12 months, would be software engineers.
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