- Ford Ceo Jim Farley believes that half of jobs in white collar will be lost for AI
- Amazon, Anthropic, Fiverr and other companies all agree
- Not surprisingly Openai and Nvidia think we overreact
Ford Ceo Jim Farley has stated that he believes that “literally half” of all white claim jobs in the United States could be lost for artificial intelligence (via TechSpot).
In a speech at Aspen Ideas Festival, Farley said, “Artificial intelligence will replace literally half of all workers in white collar in the US … AI will leave a lot of white collar people.”
Of course, this comes from the carmaker who is responsible for revolutionizing the manufacturing process and adapting to similar expressions shared by other influential executions.
Will AI take my job?
Despite widespread warnings from business leaders and analysts globally, AI’s real effects on the human workforce are not yet fully determined – to counteract this ordinary view, many believe that AI can simply redefine roles, remove some and create others.
AI is determined on the field to replace some roles at Amazon, with his CEO Andy Jassy recently, where he says many positions will be redundant due to progress in generative AI.
However, Jassy noted that new Stem-related roles could be created, marking a shift rather than a total annihilation.
Dario Amodei, CEO of AI Giant Anthropic, also predicted that about half of jobs on white collar could be at risk, which led to the unemployment rate 10-20% higher within five years.
Micha Kaufman, CEO of Fiverr, who has his eyes on the freelancer community, suggested that programmers, designers and lawyers be at risk, while JPMorgan Chase expects the main cabinet to fall by approx. 10% due to AI resolution.
Then there are the companies that have stopped employment efforts completely. It is believed that Apple’s employment freezing will continue since it was first revealed in 2022, with Spotify CEO Tobi Lütke Pausing Recruitment to assess whether AI can do the job first.
However, not all the downfall and gloom with chatgpt-maker Openais COO, Brad Lightcap, and says there has been some evidence of widespread job loss from AI so far. Lightcap believes that the effect will be slower and more limited than some of the above views, where NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang calls them “too alarmist.”
