{"id":283597,"date":"2025-07-22T22:15:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T22:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/283597\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T22:15:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T22:15:11","slug":"openai-ceo-tells-federal-reserve-confab-that-entire-job-categories-will-disappear-due-to-ai-sam-altman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/283597\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI CEO tells Federal Reserve confab that entire job categories will disappear due to AI | Sam Altman"},"content":{"rendered":"

During his latest trip to Washington, OpenAI<\/a>\u2019s chief executive, Sam Altman<\/a>, painted a sweeping vision of an AI-dominated future in which entire job categories disappear, presidents follow ChatGPT\u2019s recommendations and hostile nations wield artificial intelligence<\/a> as a weapon of mass destruction, all while positioning his company as the indispensable architect of humanity\u2019s technological destiny.<\/p>\n

Speaking at the Capital Framework for Large Banks conference at the Federal Reserve<\/a> board of governors, Altman told the crowd that certain job categories would be completely eliminated by AI advancement.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome areas, again, I think just like totally, totally gone,\u201d he said, singling out customer support roles. \u201cThat\u2019s a category where I just say, you know what, when you call customer support, you\u2019re on target and AI, and that\u2019s fine.\u201d<\/p>\n

The OpenAI founder described the transformation of customer service as already complete, telling the Federal Reserve<\/a> vice-chair for supervision, Michelle Bowman: \u201cNow you call one of these things and AI answers. It\u2019s like a super-smart, capable person. There\u2019s no phone tree, there\u2019s no transfers. It can do everything that any customer support agent at that company could do. It does not make mistakes. It\u2019s very quick. You call once, the thing just happens, it\u2019s done.\u201d<\/p>\n

The OpenAI<\/a> founder then turned to healthcare, making the suggestion that AI\u2019s diagnostic capabilities had surpassed human doctors, but wouldn\u2019t go so far as to accept the superior performer as the sole purveyor of healthcare.<\/p>\n

\u201cChatGPT today, by the way, most of the time, can give you better \u2013 it\u2019s like, a better diagnostician than most doctors in the world,\u201d he said. \u201cYet people still go to doctors, and I am not, like, maybe I\u2019m a dinosaur here, but I really do not want to, like, entrust my medical fate to ChatGPT<\/a> with no human doctor in the loop.\u201d<\/p>\n

His visit to Washington was aligned with the Trump administration\u2019s unveiling of its \u201cAI action plan\u201d, which is focused defining and easing some regulations and promoting more datacenters. Altman\u2019s latest engagement is with the federal government under Donald Trump, which has taken on a new tune compared with years past. While much has changed with the tech over the years, under the Biden administration, OpenAI and its rivals asked the government to regulate AI. Meanwhile under Trump, they talk of accelerating to beat China.<\/p>\n

At the fireside chat, he said one of his biggest worries was over AI\u2019s rapidly advancing destructive capabilities, with one scenario that kept him up at night being a hostile nation using these weapons to attack the US financial system. And despite being in awe of advances in voice cloning, Altman warned the crowd about how that same benefit could enable sophisticated fraud and identity theft, considering that \u201cthere are still some financial institutions that will accept the voiceprint as authentication\u201d.<\/p>\n

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OpenAI and Altman are already under way on their big pivot to Washington, attempting to crash a party at which Elon Musk once held the golden ticket. Along with announcing plans to open his company\u2019s first office in Washington next year, Altman faced the Senate commerce committee for his first congressional testimony since his high-profile appearance in May 2023 that propelled him on to the global stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During his latest trip to Washington, OpenAI\u2019s chief executive, Sam Altman, painted a sweeping vision of an AI-dominated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3163],"tags":[323,1942,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-283597","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-technology","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114899197785525484","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283597","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=283597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}