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Re:Anthropic CEO of AI Threat to Jobs: Unemployed or Very-Lo... by gjsman-1000 on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @03:04PM (#46800816)
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."

In this case, Dario Amodei cannot understand a world, where AI fails to deliver on his own promises. Amodei is a salesman, just as much as any CEO.

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Re:Anthropic CEO of AI Threat to Jobs: Unemployed or Very-Lo... by ef2efe on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @04:22PM (#46801711)
The people who take him at his word are comical. Just comical.
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Re:Anthropic CEO of AI Threat to Jobs: Unemployed or Very-Lo... by disgruntledphd2 on Thursday January 29, 2026 @05:31AM (#46808226)
Like, he claimed that basically all of software engineering would have been automated by now.

While I believe he's a little more sincere than Musk, that's not really saying much.

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