“AI is starting to get better than humans at almost all intellectual tasks, and we’re going to collectively, as a society, grapple with it,” Amodei told Cooper. Amodei may believe that AI can increase productivity and make each hour of labor create more goods and services. But labor productivity grew just 2% to 3%.) Axios framed Amodei’s economic prediction as a “white-collar bloodbath.”Even some AI optimists were put off by Amodei’s stark characterization. So, this is kind of Anthropic’s whole ~thing.~ It refers to itself primarily as an “AI safety and research” company.