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Anthropic’s head of economics just explained why Anthropic’s CEO was wrong about a white-collar bloodbath — so far
We've been hearing about doomsday, but Peter McCrory writes we "don’t see significant impact of AI on the U.S. labor market."
Summary
Anthropic’s head of economics, Peter McCrory , published a lengthy X essay this week arguing AI has caused no material rise in US unemployment—a data-driven rebuttal that lands in sharp tension with CEO Dario Amodei’s repeated warnings of an imminent white-collar bloodbath . Amodei has staked out some of the industry’s most alarming public positions on AI’s labor impact, though his framing has shifted considerably over the past year.
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