Healthcare employs 1 in 9 Americans. Anthropic just named it as both the biggest AI automation target AND the designated landing zone for everyone else’s displaced workers. Same industry. Opposite fates.
The back office is the kill zone. Autonomous coding vendors report 85-95% of charts processed without human touch. Ambient documentation went from demo to procurement line item in 30 months. This isn’t hype. It’s already in the attrition numbers.
Anthropic’s policy framework literally proposes enhanced benefits for displaced workers who opt into healthcare and elder care roles. A frontier AI lab is designing the safety net as a routing mechanism into care work.
The problem: entry-level care jobs pay $33-45k. Home care turnover runs 60-80% annually. The sector churns its entire frontline workforce every 18 months and still can’t fill shifts. The sink exists. The plumbing is half-built.
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