Nvidia CEO Says Instead of Taking Your Job, AI Will Force You to Work Even Harder

With so much AI buzz coursing through the air these days, there are plenty of sensationalist claims about the tech’s affect on the job market.

One prevailing narrative — and arguably the driving financial incentive behind AI — is that AI is set to automate everyone’s jobs, or at least a huge portion of them. Whether that would be for better or worse is another question, as scholars have observed that mass joblessness combined with monopoly capitalism isn’t exactly a recipe for utopia.

Still, more optimistic voices — those of tech CEOs, investors, and other market players — argue that AI automation will kick off an era of unimaginable prosperity for humankind.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, for example, seems to think AI productivity gains will completely change everyone’s relationship to work in the near future. Unlike some of his fellow tech billionaires though, Huang says AI will leave everyone with more work than ever.

At the US-Saudi Investment Forum in Washington DC this week, Huang said that “everyone’s jobs will be different” as AI ushers in a wave of new business concepts and projects. “If your life becomes more productive and if the things that you’re doing with great difficulty become simpler, it is very likely because you have so many ideas you’ll have more time to pursue things,” the CEO suggested.

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