By: Katherine Bindley<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\tOriginally published on\u00a0The Wall Street Journal<\/a>, June 11, 2026. A year ago, the message from many business leaders was that AI was going\u00a0to wipe out jobs<\/a>. For the past month or so, tech CEOs have been striking a more optimistic tone.<\/p>\n In late May,\u00a0OpenAI<\/a>\u00a0Chief Executive\u00a0Sam Altman\u2014who has long predicted that AI will lead to\u00a0seismic shifts in the workforce<\/a>\u2014said\u00a0during a conference<\/a>, \u201cWe\u2019ve been roughly right on technological predictions and pretty wrong on the social and economic implications.\u201d<\/p>\n Soon after, he told CNBC, \u201cOur industry underestimated how much we\u2019re going to be able to keep people at the center of everything.\u201d<\/p>\n Anthropic CEO\u00a0Dario Amodei, who warned in May 2025 that artificial intelligence could eliminate half of entry-level jobs, a year later\u00a0highlighted more-positive scenarios<\/a>\u00a0for AI-adopting businesses: \u201cThey can do the same thing with less resources, and that leads to things like layoffs, or they can do more with the same amount of resources. But that requires creativity.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nAs public opinion of AI shifts into negative, warnings of mass employment reductions diminish<\/p>\n