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AI leaders' job automation predictions shift as profits loom

Tech leaders like Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, and Jensen Huang initially predicted AI would automate 90% of jobs, a claim now seen as fear-mongering to secure investor funding. As these predictions impact their own profits, they are backtracking on their earlier rhetoric. The article argues that these narratives are driven by self-serving profit motives rather than truth, urging a more critical approach to such pronouncements. AI

IMPACT Critiques the narrative framing of AI's impact on employment by industry leaders.

RANK_REASON The item is an opinion piece critiquing the statements of AI leaders.

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    📣 Why put trust in billionaire Speak We initially trusted billionaires like Sam Altman, Dario Amodei & Jensen Huang when they claimed AI would automate 90% of j

    📣 Why put trust in billionaire Speak We initially trusted billionaires like Sam Altman, Dario Amodei & Jensen Huang when they claimed AI would automate 90% of jobs causing mass unemployment. - Now that their original fear mongering threatens their own bottom lines, they are conve…