-Sam Altman “whole classes of jobs going away”

-Mustafa Suleyman "So white-collar work, where you're sitting down at a computer, either being a lawyer or an accountant or a project manager or a marketing person — most of those tasks will be fully automated by an AI within the next 12 to 18 months."

-Jim Farley “Artificial intelligence is going to replace literally half of all white-collar workers.”

-Dario Amodei predicted that AI could eliminate up to 50% of entry-level white-collar jobs within five years

-Arindam Paul has said that 40-50 percent of white-collar jobs in India could cease to exist because of AI, and an Anthropic researcher had predicted that AI would be able to automate any white-collar job by 2028.

AI skeptics constantly lie and misrepresent what the leaders in this field have actually said, and then get themselves all spun up about something they fabricated in the first place!

It’s both humorous and a little sad.

OK, so I guess the claim is true as soon as one person loses their job?

And again, YOU are the one focused on "THE entire workforce", I already said fine, we can just talk about tech or whatever subset you'd like. The point is that it's pretty clear these quotes are not nearly as widely sweeping as AI detractors usually misrepresent them as.