Sam Altman predicts AI will cause major job losses in these fields - will you be safe? (www.techradar.com)

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told Tucker Carlson he’s "kept up at night" by AI’s potential to displace large swaths of the workforce, singling out customer service roles and programmers as most vulnerable. He argued that many current phone- and chat-based support jobs could be done better by AI, and warned that even small decisions in model behavior can have outsized real-world consequences — a concern he views as more pressing than headline ethical dilemmas. Altman cited research suggesting half of jobs shift meaningfully every ~75 years and said AI could accelerate that pace, while real-world signals already exist (e.g., Salesforce cutting 4,000 support agents) even as some firms and analysts (Gartner) predict many companies may reverse headcount reductions by 2027. The announcement is significant because it comes from the leader of a major model developer, reframing AI progress as an immediate labor-market and governance challenge. Technically, it underscores advances in conversational and code‑generation models that enable automated phone/chat support and developer tooling, and the broader rise of AI agents that firms will need to manage alongside humans. For practitioners and policymakers the takeaway is practical: prioritize human-in-the-loop design, robust behavior tuning, retraining/upskilling pathways, and sector-specific safeguards (roles requiring deep human connection, like nursing, are less likely to be fully automated).