As AI takes over tech, Anthropic CEO urges youth to choose people-focused careers

Speaking to Zerodha co-founder Nikhil Kamath during a podcast, Amodei was quoted as saying by the media: "I think coding is going away first, or coding is being done by the AI models first."

He said the act of coding may be fully automated in future.

Suggesting that human-centric roles will have a longer runway, he said: "Tasks that involve relating to people may endure."

During the podcast, the AI leader said highly automated industries, skills such as oversight, judgment and human-centred decision-making may continue to play a critical role.

“In the world in which AI can kinda generate anything and create anything, having basic critical thinking skills may be the most important thing to success,” he said in the podcast as quoted by the media.

Dario Amodei's recently warned that  highly technical jobs, such as software engineering, could become largely obsolete within the next 12 months.

Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, highlighted the trend during the World Economic Forum in Davos.

He was quoted as saying by the media, “I have engineers within Anthropic who say I don’t write any code anymore. I just let the model write the code, I edit it. I do the things around it.”

Amodei further cautioned about the speed of transformation in the software engineering profession: “I think… I don’t know… we might be six to twelve months away from when the model is doing most, maybe all of what SWEs (software engineers) do end to end. Then it’s a question of how fast does that loop close.”