PUSHING BACK ON AI JOBS NARRATIVE
Throughout the trip, Huang addressed the growing anxiety that AI would replace human workers.
His response was characteristically blunt.
Calling the link between AI and layoffs “lazy”, he argued that the technology would ultimately create more jobs, not fewer – and that companies would expand as they become more productive.
“How is it possible that AI became productive and useful only six months ago, and they were somehow laying people off two years ago because of AI? It doesn’t make any sense,” he told CNA.
The real risk, he suggested, is not AI itself, but failing to adapt to it.
“You’re not going to lose your jobs to AI, you’re going to lose your job to somebody who learned AI better than you,” the Nvidia CEO said.
For Huang, a future with AI is an optimistic one.
“It’s more likely that the companies with ambition will be more productive; they will do things faster, their company will increase in velocity,” he said.
“As a result, they become larger, more profitable. When they become larger, more profitable, they’ll end up hiring more people.”