Sam Altman Says AI White-Collar Job Collapse Slower Than Expected
#1032Rohan Paul@ROHANPAUL_AIA compilation of opinions from AI leaders on AI-related job loss over the past few years.
Rohan Paul@rohanpaul_aiGoldman Sachs CEO, David M. Solomon on nytimes "A.I. won’t eliminate 25% of jobs. What’s more likely is that people will find more productive ways to spend their time. When I was a first-year banking analyst, something as simple as making a graph of a stock’s performance took six hours of looking up prices in back issues of The Wall Street Journal on microfiche. Today, a first-year analyst can do it in seconds, and we have employed more people than ever in recent years. With more sophisticated tools, the complexity of our work naturally expands. Do any of us feel like we have less to do these days despite the convenience of Excel, email or Zoom?" --- nytimes .com/2026/05/22/opinion/ai-job-crisis-goldman-sachs.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
#1032Rohan Paul@ROHANPAUL_AIGoldman Sachs CEO, David M. Solomon on nytimes
"A.I. won’t eliminate 25% of jobs. What’s more likely is that people will find more productive ways to spend their time.
When I was a first-year banking analyst, something as simple as making a graph of a stock’s performance took six hours of looking up prices in back issues of The Wall Street Journal on microfiche.
Today, a first-year analyst can do it in seconds, and we have employed more people than ever in recent years. With more sophisticated tools, the complexity of our work naturally expands.
Do any of us feel like we have less to do these days despite the convenience of Excel, email or Zoom?"
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nytimes .com/2026/05/22/opinion/ai-job-crisis-goldman-sachs.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
Rohan Paul@rohanpaul_aiwionews: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman now says the feared AI white-collar job collapse has not arrived as fast as he expected. Altman previously warned that routine office work, especially entry-level tasks, could be hit hard because of AI. His new view is that work is bending before it breaks, because companies still need humans for judgment, trust, taste, emotional reading, and messy communication where the right answer depends on context. --- wionews .com/trending/delighted-to-be-wrong-sam-altman-says-ai-may-not-trigger-feared-white-collar-job-apocalypse-1779801560534