By TOI Tech Desk
Publication Date: 2026-05-04 13:44:00
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is firing back at AI ‘doomsayers’ – essentially CEOs and top leadership of companies – calling predictions of a massive job wipeout “ridiculous” and urging fellow tech leaders to drop their “God complex”. In a recent interview with the Special Competitive Studies Project (via Fortune), Huang argued that while warnings about an AI apocalypse may be intended to help, they are actually causing harm by scaring away the next generation of talent.Huang specifically took aim at claims that AI will eliminate 50% of entry-level jobs – a figure previously cited by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei. While he did not mention Amodei by name, Huang’s critique of fellow executives was sharp. “They’re made by people who are like me, CEOs, and somehow because they became CEOs you adopt a God complex, and before you know it you know everything,” Huang said. He insisted that leaders must “ground” themselves in facts rather than making grand, frightening predictions.
Why the ‘AI Apocalypse’ is not happening
According to Huang, the fear that AI will replace workers ignores how technology actually drives growth. He estimated that AI has already created over half a million jobs in just the last few years.Huang pointed to several reasons why AI is a job creator, not a killer. One of the examples is in software engineering, where the task is coding but the purpose is solving problems and innovating. AI can handle the task, but humans are needed for…
