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 loses sleep over AI’s likely disruption of the workforce, warning that the technology could cause widespread job losses — especially in customer support and software development. Altman emphasized that his biggest worry isn’t big ethical choices but how small behavior changes in models can have outsized, everyday real‑world effects. He cited research suggesting roughly half of jobs transform every ~75 years and warned AI could accelerate that timeline, leaving workers with little time to adapt. The concern is already playing out in industry moves: Salesforce recently cut about 4,000 support roles citing AI efficiency gains, while analyst firm Gartner predicts many companies will still reconsider or reverse support-headcount cuts by 2027 as they sort out operational and trust issues. Technically, advances in conversational agents, code synthesis and automation lower labor needs for repetitive, rules-based tasks, whereas roles requiring strong human connection (nursing, certain care and relationship-driven jobs) remain more resistant. The practical implications for the AI/ML community include prioritizing safe, interpretable model behavior, building robust human–AI workflows, and contributing to reskilling tools and policies that help workers transition as automation reshapes job boundaries.