The biggest political issue of the next decade may not be immigration, inflation, or even foreign wars. It may be something just now bubbling to the surface of the discourse in Washington: the rise of artificial intelligence and the millions of white-collar jobs it threatens to erase.

Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic and one of the foremost minds in artificial intelligence, recently sounded the alarm about this potential crisis in an interview with Axios. His message was blunt: “AI could wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs — and spike unemployment to 10-20 percent in the next one to five years.” He warned that the American public is sleepwalking toward a mass economic dislocation that could reorder society.

“Most of them are unaware that this is about to happen,” he said. “It sounds crazy, and people just don’t believe it.”

Believe it. Because the future Amodei describes is already beginning to unfold.