By Jake Angelo
Publication Date: 2026-03-19 07:31:00
The year is 2036. You’re sitting at your office desk—alongside 100 AI agents.
At least, that’s how Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang imagines work could be one day at Nvidia. Speaking at a Q&A session for media at the Nvidia GTC conference in San Jose, the CEO and cofounder said that in a decade, the company could expect to have about 75,000 workers—nearly double the 42,000 currently at the company—all working alongside millions of AI agents.
“In 10 years, we will hopefully have 75,000 employees, as small as possible, as big as necessary. They’re going to be super busy” Huang said to laughter. “Those 75,000 employees will be working with 7.5 million agents.”
That’s a 100-to-1 ratio of agents to humans. Huang’s comments reflect the rapidly growing AI adoption across industries. And companies are increasingly bullish on AI, encouraging employees to dive headfirst into the technology. Accenture CEO Julie Sweet said failure to adopt AI could actually cost workers a promotion. Other executives from companies like OpenTable and Salesforce see AI agents as the future of work.
Huang said those AI agents won’t exactly replace workers. Instead, they’ll be picking up the grunt work human employees don’t need to complete. “They’ll be working around the clock,” he said. “So hopefully our people don’t have to keep up with them.”
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