By Kevin Harrish
Publication Date: 2026-04-21 03:29:00
Over the past several months, there has been a lot of discourse about the job losses that may come as a result of AI automation. However, Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas seems to think that massive job losses would be worth it.
As research mounts about the impacts that AI could have on the job market, Srinivas seems to think that the focus should be on the “glorious future” AI would create, not the jobs that it would cost.
Potential Job Losses
Goldman Sachs researchers have recently estimated that 6-to-7 percent of workers could lose their jobs over the next decade as a result of AI, and the impacts of those job losses could be compounded if they coincide with a recession.
The research indicates that during past waves of unemployment due to new technology, people who lost their jobs were unemployed longer and were hit harder financially than people who were unemployed for non-technological reasons.
On top of that, a Senate report in October suggested that AI and automation could destroy 100 million jobs in the next 10 years.
Needless to say, that points to a grim future for millions of workers across the country.
Job Losses Are Worth It, Srinivas Claims
During a recent interview on the All-In Podcast, Srinivas shrugged off these potential job losses,
“[America has] been about trying to build new things, discover new things, go explore,” Srinivas said on the podcast. “I think this whole Henry Ford came and built factories and brought in jobs and things like that, and put people…
