Of the many philosophical questions the age of artificial intelligence has foisted onto our attention, perhaps none is more urgent for policymakers than the nature and meaning of work.
Work, we are told, may soon become distressingly hard to find. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei famously predicted in 2025 that AI would eliminate “half of all entry-level white-collar jobs—and spike unemployment to 10-20% in the next one to five years,” a prospect Axios described as a “white-collar bloodbath.” Even blue collar work may prove no refuge. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang suggested, also in 2025, that we would know AI was truly ubiquitous “when, literally, humanoid robots are wandering around, which is not five years away. This is not a five-years-away problem, this is a few-years-away problem.”
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