Nvidia’s Jensen Huang has a message for blue-collar workers: Don’t miss the AI wave

Artificial intelligence isn’t only coming for office jobs — Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says blue-collar workers should be paying attention, too.

Huang leads one of the biggest chipmakers fueling the AI revolution. He joined Lex Fridman’s podcast in an episode published Monday to discuss everything from AI in space to work.

While blue-collar jobs have been considered relatively safe from AI disruption compared to tech roles like engineering, Huang said workers in every profession, including farming and electrical work, should use artificial intelligence to help future-proof their jobs.

“If I were a farmer, I would absolutely use AI. If I were a pharmacist, I would use AI,” Huang said. “I want to see what it could do to elevate my job so that I could be the innovator to revolutionize this industry myself.”

For example, he said coding represents a big opportunity for carpenters, and he would go “completely berserk” using AI if he were in that line of work.

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