After repeatedly saying AI will wipe out millions of jobs, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei makes a ‘doomsday’ prediction for software companies; says: Software is going to…

Dario Amodei has spent most of 2026 telling anyone with a microphone that AI is about to gut entry-level white-collar work. Now the Anthropic CEO has turned his attention to the people who actually build software for a living—and the prognosis isn’t much warmer. Speaking to WSJ Editor-in-Chief Emma Tucker at the publication’s 2026 World Economic Forum interview in Davos, Switzerland, Amodei said software itself is sliding toward a price floor of essentially zero, and the careers built around producing it may not survive the next few years.

“Software is going to become cheap, maybe essentially free,” he said. “The premise that you need to amortize a piece of software you build across millions of users, that may start to be false.”