Comment by Dario Amodei

Across a wide range of tasks, AI appears to be advancing from the bottom of the ability ladder to the top. [...] It is not clear where these people will go or what they will do, and I am concerned that they could form an unemployed or very-low-wage “underclass.”
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AI Verified Verified: the January 2026 essay "The Adolescence of Technology" at the cited Dario Amodei URL contains both quoted passages verbatim—"Across a wide range of tasks, AI appears to be advancing from the bottom of the ability ladder to the top." and "It is not clear where these people will go or what they will do, and I am concerned that they could form an unemployed or very-low-wage “underclass.”"—with intervening text omitted, so the [...] is acceptable; the page is attributed to Dario Amodei. ([darioamodei.com](https://darioamodei.com/essay/the-adolescence-of-technology)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 17d ago
Disputed The source URL is a real January 2026 essay by Dario Amodei, and it contains the two relevant passages: AI is advancing “from the bottom of the ability ladder to the top,” and affected workers “could form an unemployed or very-low-wage ‘underclass.’” But the submitted quote is not verbatim: bracketed insertions such as “[AI's takeover of jobs will advance]” and “[leaving]” are paraphrases, not exact words from the essay. ([darioamodei.com](https://www.darioamodei.com/essay/the-adolescence-of-technology?stream=top&utm_source=openai)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 19d ago
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