{"id":97522,"date":"2026-05-26T17:35:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T14:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=97522"},"modified":"2026-05-26T17:40:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T14:40:12","slug":"altman-questions-ai-induced-job-apocalypse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/altman-questions-ai-induced-job-apocalypse\/","title":{"rendered":"Altman Questions AI-Induced Job Apocalypse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has expressed skepticism that the advancement of artificial intelligence will lead to a global &#8220;job apocalypse.&#8221; This was reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/openais-altman-says-ai-unlikely-lead-jobs-apocalypse-2026-05-26\/\">Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, AI has not yet caused the large-scale reduction in office jobs that he himself anticipated following the launch of ChatGPT in 2022.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m glad I was wrong. It seemed that by now the impact on entry-level office positions would be greater,&#8221; the entrepreneur said at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia conference in Sydney.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The CEO stated that the company &#8220;roughly accurately&#8221; assessed the technological development of <span data-descr=\"large language model\" class=\"old_tooltip\">LLM<\/span>, but erred in predicting its immediate social and economic consequences.<\/p>\n<p>Altman noted that he previously considered the risk of mass automation to be real and therefore spoke about it publicly. He mentioned that such a threat might still exist, but the situation now appears different.<\/p>\n<p>He explained this by noting that many professions retain a &#8220;human element&#8221; that is difficult to replace with algorithms. As an example, Altman shared that he tried using AI for responses in Slack and email but then returned to personal communication.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;We truly value interaction with people,&#8221; he stated.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In Altman&#8217;s view, this experience has altered his perception of the future labor market. He believes that the employment landscape will be &#8220;quite different&#8221; from what many industry participants expected.<\/p>\n<p>However, layoffs due to artificial intelligence are still occurring. In April, Oracle <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/oracle-to-lay-off-thousands-amid-ai-investments\">began cutting<\/a> thousands of employees amid falling stock prices and significant capital expenditures on AI infrastructure development.<\/p>\n<p>In February, Block CEO Jack Dorsey <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/block-shares-surge-20-following-major-layoffs-for-ai-transition\">announced<\/a> the layoff of nearly 4,000 employees. The decision was linked to the company&#8217;s transition to a &#8220;more compact, flat, and AI-focused&#8221; structure.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in May, China <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/china-bans-ai-driven-layoffs\">banned<\/a> layoffs due to AI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has expressed skepticism that the advancement of artificial intelligence will lead to a global &#8220;job apocalypse.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"OpenAI CEO doubts AI will cause a global job apocalypse.","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[438,1138],"class_list":["post-97522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-opinions"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"4","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"OpenAI CEO doubts AI will cause a global job apocalypse.","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97523,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97522\/revisions\/97523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}