While more and more companies are adopting artificial intelligence and automating jobs, fears of the impact of AI on low-level tasks and entry-level roles have triggered an animated debate on the future of jobs in white collar, in particular among those who enter the workforce.
Despite general fears that artificial intelligence can automate jobs and reduce employee salaries, the CEO of Nvidia, Jensen Huang, considers that if the jobs are undoubtedly evolving in the AI era, the roles of white collar will not be entirely annihilated. Huang directs Nvidia, now the most precious technological society in the world.
“Some jobs will be obsolete, but many jobs will be created … Whenever companies are more productive, they hire more people,” Huang said at the Vivatech conference in Paris last week.
His comments were in response to the recent claims of the anthropogenic CEO Dario Amodei, who warned that 50% of all entry -level white collar work could be eliminated by AI, which can potentially push unemployment to 20% over the next five years.
“First, he believes that AI is so frightening that only they (anthropic) should do so. Two two years, that AI is so expensive, no one else should do it … And three, AI is so incredibly powerful that everyone will lose their job, which explains why they should be the only business building it,” said Huang.
“I think AI is a very important technology; We must build it and make it advance safely and responsiblely. If you want things to be done safely and in a responsible manner, you do it in the open air … don’t do it in a dark room and tell me that is sure. “
While Huang believes that AI will open more career opportunities in the future, Sam Altman of Openai has a different point of view on the way in which artificial intelligence can have an impact on the labor market. According to Altman, whose company manufactures the most advanced LLM, expects that there could be “whole classes of jobs in progress” as AI develops.
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“The rate of technological progress will continue to accelerate, and it will continue to be the case that people are able to adapt to almost everything,” he said in a blog post last week.
“There will be very difficult parts such as entire classes of jobs that disappear, but on the other hand, the world will become so much richer so quickly that we will be able to seriously entertain new political ideas that we have never been able to previously. We will probably not adopt a new social contract at the same time, but when we go back in a few decades, progressive changes will have something big. ”
According to Altman, although the employment landscape can change in the coming years, there will also be new opportunities created by superintendent:
“… maybe we will move from the resolution of high energy physics for a year to start the next spatial colonization; or from a major breakthrough of the science of materials for a year to the real interface of brain brain with wide bandwidth.”
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Huang and Altman are not the only CEOs of technology with strong opinions on AI and jobs – the founder of Zoho, Sridhar Vembu, also has clear reflections on how AI could have an impact on employment.
According to Vembu, if artificial intelligence disrupts the labor market, there are two possible results: the prices of automated goods and services could fall considerably, or the remaining professions centered on humans can see a substantial increase in remuneration.
“On the subject of AI and jobs: hypothetically, if all the software should be automated – I want to emphasize that we are far from this objective – and all software engineers like me were without work, it is not as if human beings would have nothing to do.”
VEMBU also underlined the broader economic challenge: “How do people offer all the goods that extend from automated factories that do not add workers?”
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In the meantime, Liendin The co-founder Reid Hoffman thinks that what young people learn to college is not the most important factor when it comes to obtaining a job. According to Hoffman, the possibility of applying AI tools and taking advantage of connections is much more essential to the landing of a job.
“These are not specific diplomas, specific courses, or necessarily necessarily specific skills that are relevant to you,” he said in a recent video on his YouTube channel. “This is your ability to say:” Hey, here is the new set of tools, here is the new challenge. This is actually what the future work will look like.
“The other part of the college which is super important, which you must not forget, is that life is a team sport, not just an individual sport,” he continued. “You can help yourself.”
In recent months, more and more technological CEOs have weighed on the rise of AI and its impact on the labor market.
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Ancient Google CEO Eric Schmidt urged workers to adopt AI to stay competitive. “If you are an artist, a teacher, a doctor, a businessman, a technical person – if you do not use this technology, you will not be relevant to your peer groups, your competitors and people who want to succeed,” Schmidt told TED 2025 in May. “Adopt it and adopt it quickly,” he warned.
Others have minimized the probability of generalized job losses due to AI. Among them, the CEO of Google Sundar Pichai, who described AI as an “accelerator” for productivity and new jobs, while always recognizing the importance of Dario Amodei’s concerns and the need for a debate on the scale of industry.
Demis Hassabis, leader of Google Deepmind, expressed less concern about the impacts of work, focusing rather on the wider risks of AI. Meanwhile, Bill Gates argued that AI will lead to a proliferation of essential expertise in all industries.