OpenAI’s Sam Altman says AI unlikely to lead to ‘jobs apocalypse’

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on Tuesday the rapid development and adoption of AI would not lead to a global “jobs apocalypse” and the technology had not claimed as many white-collar jobs as he had feared.

Speaking at a Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) conference in Sydney, Altman said he was initially concerned about the impact AI would have on global employment levels.

He said he and his executives had been “roughly right” on the technological predictions made by OpenAI when it launched ChatGPT ‌in 2022. But ⁠he said ⁠they were “pretty wrong” on the social and economic implications.