Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei offered some valuable advice for young Indians preparing to enter the country’s workforce, especially at a time when rapid advances in artificial intelligence and technology are pushing companies to automate work roles.
Speaking on the WTF podcast hosted by Zerodha co-founder Nikhil Kamath, Amodei said that fields like coding, math and parts of science are already increasingly driven by artificial intelligence.
“I think coding will disappear first, or coding will be done by AI models first,” he said, adding that the entire act of writing code may be automated sooner and the broader discipline of software engineering will take longer.
Which job roles are less vulnerable to AI integration?
Asked which industries are most vulnerable to disruption and which may have more time to adapt, Dario Amodei said roles focused on human interaction are likely to have a longer trajectory. “Tasks that involve relating to people” can endure, he suggested.
However, he argued that not every element of the workflow will disappear. Areas such as design, understanding user requirements, and managing teams of AI systems could remain human-driven for longer. In doing so, Amodei suggested that even in highly automated industries, skills such as human-centered supervision, judgment and decision-making can continue to play a critical role.
What profession can one choose?
Talking about where young professionals should look for opportunities, Amodei said the smartest thing to do is to ride the “AI tailwind”. If artificial intelligence becomes a defining force, he says, businesses that build on it or support their supply chain could benefit the most.
As an example, he pointed to the semiconductor industry, which combines the physical world and more traditional engineering with an AI infrastructure, rather than pure software.
“In a world where AI can generate anything and create anything, basic critical thinking may be the most important thing to succeed,” he said in the podcast.
Can artificial intelligence lead to the de-skilling of humans?
However, Amodei warned that careless use of AI could lead to “dequalification”. He pointed to examples of students using artificial intelligence to write essays. “It’s basically just cheating on homework. So we shouldn’t be doing it.”
Internal coding studies, he says, show that depending on how AI tools are used, they can either support learning or disrupt basic skills. “There are different ways to use the model, and some of them don’t cause a loss of skills, and some do, but definitely if people aren’t considerate in how they use things, de-skilling absolutely can happen,” he added.
