Sam Altman said that the rapid development of AI will not lead to a global "jobs apocalypse," and that the technology has not eliminated as many white-collar jobs as he had expected by this point. "I'm delighted to be wrong about this," Altman told CBA Chief Executive Matt Comyn. "I thought there would have been more impact on entry-level white-collar jobs being eliminated by now than has actually happened." It's a notable change in tone. Altman has spent the past three years publicly warning that AI would "probably replace most of the jobs people do today," that entire job categories would be "totally, totally gone," and that the historical rate of job turnover (roughly 50 percent of jobs changing every 75 years) could be compressed into a much shorter window. The reversal puts Altman at odds with most of his peers. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said last year that up to half of all entry-level white-collar jobs could disappear within five years and that unemployment could reach 10 to 20 percent.