Imagine a virtual nation with the population of Spain, but made up solely of the brightest minds on the planet, without geographical limits. A collective intelligence capable of operating in a space as small as ten football fields and functioning at a speed one hundred times faster than any human. Without pause, without sleep, managing laboratories, influencing the global economy, designing tools, robots, and weapons, continuously. This is not a futuristic vision but a real warning posed by Darío Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, in a recent essay. Amodei, a leader in the field of artificial intelligence and safety, warns of the urgency to react to the advancement of AI. His company has developed Claude, an advanced conversational model capable of solving complex reasoning and programming tasks. According to Amodei, in just five years, this technology could eliminate up to 25% of jobs in key sectors such as journalism, finance, or law. Major tech companies are no longer just looking to dominate search engines but to control the entire workflow, which poses a disruption that threatens to radically transform the job landscape. In the legal field, for example, AI already performs in seconds administrative tasks that previously took days of human work, such as contract review or drafting appeals. The introduction of these tools caused stock drops of up to 15% in leading legal software companies like Thomson Reuters and Wolters Kluwer, marking the beginning of a profound change that also affects database companies, video game developers, and IT firms. Layoffs are already a reality in these sectors, and automation is advancing towards insurance companies, logistics firms, and consulting agencies. Unlike the Industrial Revolution, where machines replaced physical labor, AI targets intellect directly. While Luddites resisted change, today, the advance of algorithms faces little significant opposition. When the internet emerged, the service sector absorbed many workers displaced from retail. Now, AI leaves hardly any alternatives for re-employing those who lose their jobs. As actors in Hollywood are replaced by artificial intelligence and programmers in Silicon Valley are laid off, the question arises: what future awaits this displaced workforce? It is essential to pause and reflect. We are creating systems that think and act faster than we do, without rest. If we do not redefine the social contract and our relationship with work, that "country of geniuses" could relegate the majority to a secondary role, turning us into prisoners of our own creation. Source: hoy.es