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Sam Altman is calling off the jobs apocalypse, so please put your molotov cocktails away. In a recent appearance at a conference hosted by the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, the CEO of OpenAI admitted that his previous warnings about mass job loss and societal upheaval were incorrect. (Well, maybe not totally<\/em> incorrect, but that societal upheaval is more directed at him than he\u2019d like, and now he\u2019s trying to do some crisis management). He\u2019s also very happy about being wrong, by the way, don\u2019t forget that part!<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m delighted to \u2060be wrong about this, I thought there would have been more impact on entry-level white-collar jobs being eliminated by now than \u200bhas actually happened,\u201d he told the conference, according to Reuters. \u201cI now think I understand more about why it hasn\u2019t, \u200band I\u2019m obviously grateful but that is an area where my intuitions were just off.\u201d<\/p>\n

As a reminder, Altman has been banging the \u201cAI is coming for your job\u201d drum for more than a decade now. In 2015, he pointed out,\u00a0\u201cMy job is to help people destroy jobs\u201d\u2014something he lamented but decided he\u2019d just do anyway. In 2023, Altman said in an interview with The Altantic, \u201cA lot of people working on AI pretend that it\u2019s only going to be good; it\u2019s only going to be a supplement; no one is ever going to be replaced. Jobs are definitely going to go away, full stop.\u201d Even just a few months ago, he was claiming that AI would handle 40% of work tasks \u201cin the not very distant future.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Now, if you\u2019re a bit of a cynic\u2014and what reason have you been given to be that?\u2014you might assume all of that talk of mass job loss was just a way for Altman to generate two things: investment from funders who want to be in on the machine that cuts human labor out of profit margins and control over the extremely powerful technology that only he and his team understand and therefore should be in control of.<\/p>\n

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But you\u2019d be wrong, you see. Altman is actually as relieved as anyone to have overstated the whole situation. (And no better time to rectify your position than after you\u2019ve secured a nearly $1 trillion valuation and are heading toward an IPO). \u201cPeople are like \u2018oh you could have saved the world a lot of fear mongering and a lot of doom and gloom\u2019 but at the time I was like \u2018I see this is a real risk we should probably \u200btalk about it\u2019 and it still may [be],\u201d he told the conference.<\/p>\n

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Altman\u2019s tune has been changing on AI\u2019s impact on jobs lately. Earlier this year, he started warning that corporations would use AI as an excuse to carry out layoffs\u2014which has undoubtedly happened. His company also recently announced a new initiative from the non-profit OpenAI Foundation that would make available $250 million for grants, partnerships, and direct work meant to help workers \u200bnavigate any disruptions caused by the proliferation of AI.<\/p>\n

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At this point, it feels like it\u2019s going to be a real uphill battle for OpenAI to flip its reputation. Even with Altman\u2019s new angle on job loss and the organization\u2019s push to appear like it\u2019s helping workers, OpenAI isn\u2019t going to stop selling its technology to companies that will try to replace human labor with it, nor will it stop bragging about things like its model achieving \u201cPhD-level intelligence.\u201d<\/p>\n

At best, the company\u2019s position seems to be: We actually hate how our technology is being used, it\u2019s a real shame there\u2019s nothing we can do about it.<\/p>\n

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