ClaimsDario Amodei

“As long as AI is only better at 90% of a given job, the other 10% will cause humans to become highly leveraged, increasing compensation and in fact creating a bunch of new human jobs complementing and amplifying what AI is good at”

Dario Amodei, Anthropic CEO, essay author 17 August 2015 Machines of Loving Grace (darioamodei.com)

Prediction AI, the economy and work

While AI is better at only 90% of a given job, the remaining 10% will make humans highly leveraged, raise compensation and create new complementary human jobs.

Not yet due The date it refers to has not come.

Prediction: Statements about events outside the person's control, checked once they fell due: did they come true?

Reasoning

Conditional on AI reaching 90% of job tasks, a state not yet reached, so the outcome cannot be known.

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Dario Amodei, “While AI is better at only 90% of a given job, the remaining 10% will make humans highly leveraged, raise compensation and create new complementary human jobs.” (said 17 August 2015). Verdict: not yet due. Reliability API, claim c_b5407348f535, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_b5407348f535

This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.

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