Jensen Huang hits back at Anthropic CEO's warning that AI will eliminate half of white-collar jobs

What just happened? Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's recent warning that AI could wipe out about half of all entry-level white-collar jobs in the next five years has been disputed by Nvidia boss Jensen Huang. It's not the first time the two companies have clashed, and Anthropic has hit back with claims that Huang is putting words into Amodei's mouth.

Amodei made his ominous prediction about AI's impact on entry-level, white-collar jobs in May, warning that the eradication of these positions will lead to unemployment spikes of 20%.

Speaking at VivaTech in Paris (via Fortune), Huang said he "pretty much disagree[d] with almost everything" the Anthropic CEO says.

"One, he believes that AI is so scary that only they should do it," Huang said of Amodei at a press briefing at Viva Technology in Paris. "Two, [he believes] that AI is so expensive, nobody else should ...