{"id":1008740,"date":"2026-05-19T11:17:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T05:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1008740"},"modified":"2026-05-19T11:17:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T05:47:29","slug":"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","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/19\/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\/","title":{"rendered":"After repeatedly saying AI will wipe out millions of jobs, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei makes a &#8216;doomsday&#8217; prediction for software companies; says: Software is going to\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2014and the prognosis isn&#8217;t much warmer. Speaking to WSJ Editor-in-Chief Emma Tucker at the publication&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Software is going to become cheap, maybe essentially free,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The premise that you need to amortize a piece of software you build across millions of users, that may start to be false.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2014and the prognosis isn&#8217;t much warmer. Speaking to WSJ Editor-in-Chief Emma Tucker at the publication&#8217;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. &#8220;Software is going to become cheap, maybe essentially free,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1008740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1008744,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008740\/revisions\/1008744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}