Anthropic's Peter McCrory on Claude and the big AI disruption | ABC NEWS

Artificial intelligence is no longer just a Silicon Valley fascination, a share market story, or something happening off in the distance. It is becoming a force that could reshape work, productivity, innovation, and the way whole economies function - and one of the companies at the centre of that shift is Anthropic, the maker of Claude. 00:00 - Introduction to Anthropic’s chief economist 01:01 - Measuring AI’s economic impact 02:05 - Dario Amodei’s warning for white-collar jobs 05:48 - Independence inside Anthropic 07:25 - McCrory vs Amodei on AI risk 09:40 - The effect of AI's exponential progress on the economy 12:57 - What Anthropic’s profits say about AI adoption 16:39 - How people are using AI personally and professionally 21:39 - Is AI adoption faster than past technologies? 23:59 - The gap between AI capability and use 27:05 - Job augmentation vs job replacement 29:00 - Anthropic’s briefing in Australia 30:00 - Mythos, cybersecurity and what comes next Peter McCrory is Anthropic’s chief economist. His job is to make sense of how this technology is being used by, and its impact on, workers, firms, and the economy right now. At the same time, his boss, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, has become one of the loudest and most alarming voices in AI - warning that half of white-collar jobs could disappear within five years, and that the risks are far bigger than most governments or businesses are treating them. Alan puts that tension directly to McCrory: where he falls between the company’s warnings, the real-world data, and the possibility of AI becomes not just another tool, but a machine for accelerating innovation itself. Peter McCrory and Alan Kohler unpack it all on That's Business with Alan Kohler. Subscribe: http://ab.co/1svxLVE Note: In most cases, our captions are auto-generated. #ABCNEWS #ABCNEWSAustralia