Dario Amodei spent last year warning of an AI white-collar bloodbath. Now he’s changing the narrative
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FORTUNE — In a single exchange, Amodei invoked two competing laws of physics-meets-economics to describe what AI might do to human labor. The first was the “Jevons Paradox” — the 19th-century observation that efficiency gains expand demand rather than contract it, suggesting AI will ultimately create more work than it destroys.
The second was “Amdahl’s Law,” a principle from computer science holding that the speed of a system is limited by its slowest component — implying that even if AI automates most of a job, the remaining human bottleneck becomes the binding constraint.
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