Amodei softens Anthropic job-doom rhetoric

This reads less like Amodei has stopped believing AI is extremely powerful, and more like he’s separating long-run macro effects from short-run pain. The AGI/ASI thesis can coexist with eventual job creation; it does not imply workers avoid getting crushed first.

• –Jevons Paradox is an economy-wide story, not a protection plan for junior lawyers, analysts, or other entry-level white-collar workers
• –Amdahl’s Law is the more concrete point: automation leaves bottlenecks, and those bottlenecks can still be human for a long time
• –The timing matters more than the theory; even if AI eventually creates more demand, displacement can still hit fast and unevenly
• –Anthropic has incentive to sound less apocalyptic while navigating regulators, lawsuits, and public scrutiny
• –For builders, the practical read is augmentation now, labor-market reshuffling later, not a clean “AI creates more jobs” guarantee