Jensen Huang urged not to believe in apocalyptic scenarios due to the growing use of AI / Photo: Nvidia / Linkedin
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang criticized CEOs for stoking fears about artificial intelligence. He said the "prophecies" of CEOs "with a god complex" who predict massive job cuts are not helpful to society and are not based on facts.
Huang made these statements in an interview with SCSP, a think tank that develops recommendations for U.S. technological competitiveness. They were emphasized by technology journalist and Substack author Dae Kim.
"It hurts to realize that we convinced young college graduates not to become software engineers, and then it turns out the U.S. needs more software engineers than ever," Huang said. - We have to be careful how we talk about the importance of this technology and what it can do. On the one hand - to advocate for the right policies and defense mechanisms. On the other hand, not to scare people with statements about meaningless things that won't happen - for example, that this is an existential threat to humanity."
The CEO of the largest developer of AI chips for data centers called claims that artificial intelligence will destroy 50% of jobs for new college graduates and "completely destroy democracy" ridiculous.
"Those kinds of comments, in my opinion, are not helpful. They are not based on facts, and they are made by, you know, people like me - general directors. Somehow, because they became CEOs, they have a god complex - before you know it, they know everything," Huang said ironically. He urged his colleagues to "be careful and really stick to the facts."
"The facts are that AI has created over 500,000 jobs in the last couple of years," the Nvidia CEO emphasized. - The facts are that AI is our biggest, best opportunity to re-industrialize the United States, to bring manufacturing jobs back to the United States. It will create hundreds of thousands of jobs, bring trillions of dollars of new economy back to the United States. Companies that use AI have already shown that they can grow faster. When they grow faster, they hire more people."
According to Huang, it's wrong to assume that if AI is able to write program code for programmers, it will lead to programmers being laid off. "We need, you know, a lot more code than [is being written now] because we have the imagination to solve problems - in healthcare, in science, in manufacturing, in retail or just in making life more comfortable," the Nvidia CEO emphasized. - We have a tremendous amount of ideas about what we can do. If we just didn't have to type anymore, we could go out and do these things. Maybe it's just that over the last 50 years, society has gotten too used to one small device with a keyboard.
That AI could wipe out about 50% of all entry-level office jobs within five years was warned by Dario Amodei, CEO of AI startup Anthropic, in his essay Adolescence of Technology, published in January. Fears are fueled by media reports as well. TIME reported that cloud computing provider and software developer Oracle has laid off up to 30,000 employees in the past month, replacing them with AI.
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