By Charles Fain Lehman
Publication Date: 2026-03-03 02:20:00
If you are one of them 90 million Americans who have white-collar jobs have received a clear message in recent months: You’re probably going to get screwed. AI will take over half of all white-collar jobs in the next four years, accordingly Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei; expect unemployment to reach 20 percent. “Nothing that can be done on a computer is safe in the medium term,” AI investor Matt Shumer wrote in a viral post. Last week week a viral scenario by Citrini Research predicted a “displacement spiral of human intelligence” caused by AI within two years.
But when doom approaches, no one has told the bosses. A current survey A survey of 6,000 business leaders in four countries found that they expect AI to reduce employment by just 0.7 percent over the next three years. Another current analysis A survey of over 12,000 European companies found that AI adoption has so far increased worker productivity without impacting employment. Studies conducted at the end of last year have now shown that…
