AI Labs Are Hiring for the Jobs That AI Is Supposedly Destroying
Business Insider • • business
Key Points:
- Despite concerns about AI eliminating jobs, Anthropic is actively hiring over 100 software engineers, indicating strong ongoing demand for human coders even at an AI-focused company.
- Anthropic's CEO and team emphasize that engineers are still crucial for prompting AI, coordinating with teams, and deciding future projects, highlighting a shift rather than a loss in engineering roles.
- The company is also recruiting extensively in finance, marketing, legal, and sales, suggesting many job functions less susceptible to AI disruption remain in demand.
- Extreme predictions about AI job losses can lead to misguided policies, such as banning data center construction, which ignores AI's role as a productivity tool rather than a job destroyer.
- Industry leaders like Jensen Huang argue that while
