Anthropic Admits AI Job Apocalypse Coming for White Collar Workers

Anthropic's Boris Cherny told reporter Casey Newton that major white collar job losses are coming as AI tools like Claude Code replace software engineers, lawyers, and call center workers. With Anthropic valued at $60 billion and revenue climbing from zero to $7 billion in two years, the company building the tool is openly warning about the devastation it will cause. Meanwhile, Trump revoked Biden's AI safety executive order on his first day in office, eliminating required safety testing and reporting on AI used in hiring and credit decisions. Tonight we follow the money: when Anthropic's tool replaces three engineers with one, those two salaries don't get shared with remaining workers, they get pocketed as margin and dividends. Workers pay $20-200 monthly for the very tool replacing them, and Anthropic's terms allow them to train future models on user work product. Pope Leo's encyclical Antiqua et Nova calls AI a moral question about who it serves, declaring the dignity of work non-negotiable. We meet Daniel Kowalski, a 41-year-old Charlotte software engineer of 13 years now driving for Lyft after his bank deployed AI coding tools. The bar regulars compare it to the 1979 robot arms in Lansing and 1988 bank teller layoffs, but this time there's no union for coders, paralegals, or call center workers. Show up, vote in off years, refuse to look away.