Meanwhile, his company, a leading artificial intelligence lab, is selling AI technology that it says can work nearly seven hours a day, the length of a typical human workday. A recent World Economic Forum survey found that 41% of employers plan to reduce their workforce because of AI automation by 2030.

The chief executive of a prominent tech company put himself in the unusual position of promoting AI but saying its widespread adoption in the workplace will upend the job market.

We still have no idea why an AI model picks one phrase over another, Anthropic Chief Executive Dario Amodei said in an April essay—an admission that's pushing the company to build an ‘MRI for AI’ and finally decode how these black-box systems actually work.