Axios CEO Jim VandeHei writes:

Starting with our interview last spring with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, where he foresaw a white-collar bloodbath, we've been warning of a jobs crisis unfolding in plain sight across America. • Last week, Mike Allen and I talked privately with 20 different CEOs of a wide range of companies. Every single one of them said they're reducing their hiring ambitions at the dawn of AI.

Why it matters: Don't trust us. Listen to Amodei, who's building AI technology, and top CEOs as they freeze or reduce hiring because of AI.

Amodei, in two interviews with us — one over the phone and the other this month at our AI+ Summit in D.C. — told us AI could wipe out half of U.S. entry-level white-collar jobs and send unemployment soaring. • Ford CEO Jim Farley said almos

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