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摘要: No AI ‘jobs apocalypse’ so far, says OpenAI’s Sam Altman

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks to members of the media during the Introduction of the integration of the Microsoft Bing search engine and Edge b...

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No AI ‘jobs apocalypse’ so far, says OpenAI’s Sam Altman

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks to members of the media during the Introduction of the integration of the Microsoft Bing search engine and Edge browser with OpenAI

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Pascale Davies

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26/05/2026 - 12:51 GMT+2

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The OpenAI boss admits he was wrong about the pace of AI job disruption – but stops short of ruling it out entirely.

The artificial intelligence boom will not lead to a "jobs apocalypse”, OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman said on Tuesday, admitting his own previous predictions on the technology’s impact on the job market were incorrect.

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Speaking in Sydney at a Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) conference, he said he was "roughly right" about the technological predictions OpenAI made when it launched ​ChatGPT in 2022. But he said they were "pretty wrong" on the social and economic impact, Reuters reported.

Altman had previously predicted that AI could compress the historical rate of job turnover – normally around 50% of jobs changing every 75 years – into a much shorter window.

He also previously said AI would take customer service jobs first, saying he was "confident that a lot of current customer support that happens over a phone or computer, those people will lose their jobs”.

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"I'm delighted to ⁠be wrong about this,” Altman told CBA Chief Executive Matt Comyn in an interview. “I thought there would have been more impact on entry-level white-collar jobs being eliminated by now than ​has actually happened.

"I now think I understand more about why it hasn't, ​and I'm obviously grateful but that is an area where my intuitions were just off.

"People are like 'oh you c


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