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Ex-Scientist Champions Collaborative AI Over Job Replacement

1/20/2026

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Andi Peng, a former research scientist at Anthropic, left to co-found Humans& with four other technologists to build AI that empowers workers rather than replaces them.
Peng criticizes Anthropic's autonomous-AI approach that could displace jobs and favors a collaborative model where AI assists humans in tasks like messaging and searches.
Some Silicon Valley observers foresee AI replacing millions of jobs, while others believe it will generate new opportunities.

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Andi Peng, a former research scientist at Anthropic, left to co-found Humans& with four other technologists to build AI that empowers workers rather than replaces them.
Peng criticizes Anthropic's autonomous-AI approach that could displace jobs and favors a collaborative model where AI assists humans in tasks like messaging and searches.
Some Silicon Valley observers foresee AI replacing millions of jobs, while others believe it will generate new opportunities.