PYMNTS.com January 20, 2026
Artificial intelligence (AI) could create a never-before-seen scenario in which both GDP growth and the unemployment rate are very high, creating greater inequality, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said Tuesday (Jan. 20).
Interviewed by the Wall Street Journal at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Amodei said that these trends are “the signature of this technology.”
“Now, that’s not a combination we’ve almost ever seen before, right? You think of high GDP growth, that’s lots of stuff to do, lots of jobs for everyone. It’s always been like that in the past. We’ve never had a technology that’s this disruptive,” Amodei said in comments shared by the WSJ in a video clip accompanying a report of the interview.
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