Value is King
Why AI’s Job Apocalypse Talk Is Fading as IPOs Approach Sam Altman and Dario Amodei spent much of the past year warning that AI would gut white-collar employment. Now, as their companies pursue potential trillion-dollar IPOs, both are publicly walking back those dramatic predictions. A Fortune article captures this shift, framing it as humble, evidence-based updating. From where I sit, it looks more like classic narrative smoothing driven by financial incentives. AI is a neutral tool—like a gun, an axe, or a shovel in the old Shane analogy. It becomes good or bad based on the character and incentives of those…