Dario Amodei

That is what I had in mind when I talked about entry-level white-collar labor and, you know, the bloodbath headlines of, you know, oh, my God, are the entry-level pipelines going to kind of dry up?

And how do we get to the level of the senior partners?

And I think this is actually a good illustration because, you know, particularly if you froze the quality of the technology in place –

you know, there are over time ways to adapt to this, right?

You know, maybe we just need more lawyers who spend their time talking to clients, right?

Maybe lawyers are more like, become more like salespeople or consultants who explain what goes on in the contracts written by AI, you know, help people come to agreement.

Maybe you lean into the human side of it.

If we had enough time, that would happen.

But reshaping industries like that takes years or decades, whereas these economic forces driven by AI are going to happen very quickly.

And it's not just they're happening in law, the same thing is happening in consulting and finance and medicine and coding.

And so you have this, it becomes a macroeconomic phenomenon, not something just happening in one industry.

And it's all happening very fast.

And so my worry here is that the normal adaptive mechanisms will be overwhelmed.

And I'm not a doomer.

The view is we're thinking very hard about how do we strengthen society's adaptive mechanisms to respond to this.

But

Yeah, that, you know, and I would argue that in many cases we do want to stay in charge, right?

That that's a choice we want to make, even in some cases when we think the humans on average make kind of worse choices.

Worse, worse decision.

I mean, you know, again, life critical, safety critical cases.