As AI takes over more of the grunt work of humans, some CEOs are sounding the alarm of a looming jobs wipeout. But Arvind Jain, the CEO of AI-powered enterprise search platform Glean, can’t imagine a world where workers are pushed out by the technology.
“I don’t think AI—or actually, for me, hopefully forever, too—AI never replaces any human, and it just actually augments us, enables us, allows us to do higher quality work,” Jain recently said onstage at Fortune’s Workplace Innovation Summit.
“There are many who will talk about [whether] you can replace this role with AI, or that role with AI. But practically we work with the largest enterprises in the world, and we’re not seeing any role getting eliminated—not today.”
The Glean CEO’s perspective stands out in a crowded group of executives forewarning of a jobs apocalypse. Dario Amodei, the CEO of AI company Anthropic, warned that the tech could wipe out up to half of white-collar jobs within the foreseeable future. JPMorgan leader Jamie Dimon has also predicted AI efficiencies could lead to the elimination of some roles, and supports a local-led ban on mass firing employees in the name of AI. Meanwhile Jim Farley, the CEO of Ford Motor Company, warned that AI could replace “literally half” of white-collar workers in the U.S.
