{"id":605203,"date":"2026-05-26T18:09:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T18:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/605203\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T18:09:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T18:09:12","slug":"openai-boss-artificial-intelligence-wont-cause-jobs-apocalypse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/605203\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI boss: artificial intelligence won\u2019t cause jobs apocalypse"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sam Altman has said artificial intelligence is unlikely to cause a \u201cjobs apocalypse\u201d because it struggles to replicate the distinctly human aspects of work.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The chief executive of OpenAI also admitted he had overestimated the social and economic impacts of AI when ChatGPT was launched in 2022, saying his predictions had been \u201cpretty wrong\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cI\u2019m delighted to be wrong about this, I thought there would have been more impact on entry-level white-collar jobs being eliminated by now than has actually happened,\u201d he said at an event in Australia. <\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think we\u2019re going to have the kind of jobs apocalypse that some of the companies in our space advocate or talk about.\u201d<\/p>\n

Altman added that his own use of AI <\/a>to reply to messages on Slack had reinforced the importance of the human elements of work. \u201cI had it reply to messages, saying \u2018this is Sam\u2019s AI\u2019, and it was an amazing example to me of we really do care about people,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cWe really do care about our interactions with people and this thing, which is a huge amount of my time, is not something that I can imagine myself outsourcing to an AI anytime soon.<\/p>\n

\u201cI now think I understand more about why it hasn\u2019t [replaced more jobs] and I\u2019m obviously grateful but that is an area where my intuitions were just off.\u201d<\/p>\n

Altman has previously suggested that entire categories of jobs, such as customer support roles, would be replaced by AI. <\/p>\n

Other tech bosses have also warned that it could lead to mass unemployment. Last year Dario Amodei, the chief executive of Anthropic, warned that AI could wipe out half of all entry level white-collar jobs and cause unemployment to spike to 10-20 per cent within the next five years.\u00a0<\/p>\n

While the wider impact on the labour market is still unclear, a number of big businesses have announced job cuts connected to AI in recent weeks. Standard Chartered has said that it will use AI to replace \u201clower-value human capital\u201d, with about 7,800 back-office roles, or about 15 per cent of the workforce, set to be cut by the end of the decade.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Meta started another round of layoffs<\/a> last week, cutting 8,000 roles, or 10 per cent of its headcount. Amazon, Microsoft and Jack Dorsey\u2019s Block have all announced job cuts this year too. According to Layoffs.fyi, a website that tracks job losses in the tech sector, more than 111,000 employees have been laid off this year by over 140 companies.<\/p>\n

Although it is still too early to get a detailed picture of the impact on the labour market, research from Goldman Sachs suggests jobs that are easier to substitute with AI, such as telephone operators and financial administrators, have seen an increase in losses. <\/p>\n

The Wall Street bank estimated that AI has reduced monthly payroll growth by roughly 25,000 and raised the unemployment rate by 0.16 percentage points in the US over the past year. In the same period, it has only helped to add 9,000 positions and lowered the jobless rate by 0.06 percentage points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sam Altman has said artificial intelligence is unlikely to cause a \u201cjobs apocalypse\u201d because it struggles to replicate…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-605203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}