OpenAI chief Sam Altman says he is “delighted to be wrong” about AI’s short-term impact on entry-level white-collar jobs, a relief that sits awkwardly against Q1 2026, when over 100,000 tech employees were laid off globally by firms including Oracle, Meta, Amazon and Cloudflare.
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The danger of AI is not that it will become conscious and hate us, but that it will become competent and ignore us."
—Eliezer Yudkowsky