{
  "id": 18762,
  "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/12/ai-job-destruction",
  "title": "AI was supposed to destroy jobs. Where’s the carnage?",
  "summary": "The AI jobs apocalypse never showed up. Still, jobs are changing and economists expect more to come The prediction was stark: artificial intelligence advancements would wipe out jobs en masse. “Half” of all entry-level white collar jobs would vanish, Anthropic’s CEO, Dario Amodei, said in May 2025. A month later, OpenAI’s CEO, Sam Altman , went further, foreseeing the end of “certain job categories”. Companies began citing AI in their layoffs. Workers organized. And students reconsidered their f",
  "authors": "Varsha Bansal",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "jobs-economy,children-education",
  "orgs": "openai,anthropic",
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-08-12T10:00:27.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-13T05:10:37.786Z",
  "source_slug": "guardian-ai",
  "source_name": "The Guardian",
  "source_homepage": "https://www.theguardian.com",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/18762",
  "original_url": "https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/12/ai-job-destruction",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}