For most of last year, Dario Amodei was one of Silicon Valley’s most prominent doomsayers on AI and employment. The Anthropic CEO said publicly and repeatedly that AI could eliminate half of entry-level, white-collar knowledge work within years — the kind of stark projection that made him the rare tech founder willing to say out loud what many of his peers only whispered.
So it was notable, at Anthropic’s briefing to the press on financial services in Lower Manhattan, sitting onstage alongside JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon for the first time, when Amodei reached for a very different intellectual framework: the Jevons Paradox.
