Jensen Huang calls the AI jobs panic ‘complete nonsense’, and takes aim at his peers

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Jensen Huang has heard the warnings. He is not buying them. The Nvidia chief runs the world’s most valuable company on the back of the AI boom. So when he calls the darkest predictions about that boom “complete nonsense,” it is worth asking whether he is right, or just talking his book.

In a wide-ranging Axios interview with Mike Allen, Huang took on two claims at once. That AI will end humanity, and that it will wipe out half of American jobs. Both are “complete nonsense,” he said, and “all of the evidence points exactly to the opposite.”

His real argument is subtler than the soundbite. It is not that no jobs change. It is that people keep confusing a task with a job.

Don’t mistake your task for your job

The line is one Huang says he gives to young people.

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