{"id":177875,"date":"2025-06-12T08:04:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T08:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/177875\/"},"modified":"2025-06-12T08:04:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T08:04:10","slug":"white-house-ai-czar-downplays-ais-impact-on-employment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/177875\/","title":{"rendered":"White House AI czar downplays AI\u2019s impact on employment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s actually very hard to replace a human job entirely. I think it&#8217;s easier to replace pieces of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XhdOA3_e8Nw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">made the remarks<\/a> amid previous research that warned employers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hcamag.com\/nz\/specialisation\/hr-technology\/nearly-half-of-employers-plan-to-reduce-headcount-due-to-ai-adoption\/519862\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">may reduce their headcount<\/a> as a result of AI adoption. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/05\/28\/ai-jobs-white-collar-unemployment-anthropic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">also told Axios<\/a> that AI could wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs, as well as increase unemployment by up to 20% in the next one to five years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think we&#8217;re going to have 20% unemployment,&#8221; Sacks said.<\/p>\n<p>The White House AI czar also called out contradictions in what he called the &#8220;doomer cult&#8221; regarding AI&#8217;s impact on GDP growth rate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It seems to me that if you believe this is a profound technology then you know it should have a big impact on GDP as well,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I want to be realistic about this, I could see AI driving our growth rate to something like four or five per cent.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;I think it&#8217;s actually very hard to replace a human job entirely. I think it&#8217;s easier to replace&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3092],"tags":[1942,51,22988,15670,897,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-177875","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-artificial-intelligence","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-human-resources","11":"tag-job-losses","12":"tag-jobs","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114669359358568869","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}