Dario Amodei just warned about the next economic crisis on live television. The timeline is 1 to 5 years. Amodei: “We may indeed have a serious employment crisis on our hands as the pipeline for this early-stage white-collar work starts to contract and dry up.” Not factory workers. Not truck drivers. Lawyers. Consultants. Finance professionals. The entry-level jobs that millions of college graduates have used as the first rung of the middle class for decades. Amodei: “AI is at the level of a smart college student and reaching beyond that.” The skills those entry-level jobs require are exactly what AI does best. Summarizing documents. Building financial models. Drafting reports. Synthesizing research. The pipeline doesn’t just shrink. It dries up. And if the entry-level pipeline disappears, there is no path to senior leadership for the next generation. The ladder doesn’t get harder to climb. It gets removed. But here is what makes this different from every other automation warning. Amodei: “We can’t stop the AI bus. Even if all six companies stopped, then China would beat us. I think that’s a big and important threat.” This isn’t a choice between disruption and stability. It’s a choice between disrupting the economy ourselves or ceding that disruption to a geopolitical adversary who will do it without any of the safeguards. There is no pause button. There is no responsible opt-out. ...