AI evangelists chill out on worker-bloodbath rhetoric

The AI executives who loudly warned about mass job loss may have been wrong, said Zynga founder Mark Pincus. Several leading voices in Silicon Valley, including AI CEOs themselves, have softened their stance on AI-driven job loss. The softening rhetoric comes just before OpenAI and Anthropic are rumored to go public and also amid a surge in AI hate from consumers. Pincus said he doesn't buy "the doom and gloom that all the jobs are going to go away," mirroring the tone shift from AI's loudest evangelists. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, who has warned of a white-collar bloodbath, recently said that falling AI costs could create new demand for workers amid an AI-driven productivity boom. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said he and his executive team were right on their technological predictions but "pretty wrong" about the impact on white-collar work. Investors like Marc Andreessen, Chamath Palihapitiya and now Pincus have also argued AI will ultimately create more opportunity than it destroys.