“The fact that we now have AI assistants [to] help us, we could explore more space, do better work, do things at a greater scale, do things more cost-effectively, do things better,” the Nvidia CEO continued.
The tech pioneer condeeded that some jobs will be rendered redundant in the tech revolution, but is overall optimistic that humans will make it out the other side with better prospects.
“My belief is we’re gonna create more jobs in the end,” Huang said. “There’ll be more people working at the end of this industrial revolution than at the beginning of it.”
Workers are understandably on edge, watching new job opportunities come to a screeching halt and companies drastically downsize in the name of AI.
Despite doomsday predictions and climbing job cuts attributed to AI, Huang offers some words of reassurance to AI-anxious people. The Nvidia leader believes that this tech transformation will be like any other—including the industrial revolution—and humans will actually be better off in the long-run. Workers just need to understand that AI agents and chatbots are simply instruments to help get their jobs done. After all, no tool has been able to replace him throughout his four-decade career in tech.
“I’m the longest-running tech CEO in the world: 34 years,” he continued. “The tools that I’ve used to do my job have changed continuously in the last 34 years, and sometimes quite dramatically.”
