The most prominent figures in artificial intelligence are stepping back from dire predictions about mass unemployment, as the industry faces growing public hostility over AI’s promised transformation of the workplace. Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, whose comments have stoked anxiety about AI’s potential effects on society, are now arguing that doom-laden warnings were overblown or, in some cases, disingenuous. Speaking to Channel News Asia on Monday, Huang took direct aim at fellow executives who have publicly blamed AI for workforce reductions. “The narrative that connects AI to job loss, for many of the CEOs that are doing it – it is just too lazy,” he said. “AI has just arrived. How is it possible they’re already losing jobs?” Huang, who has long argued that AI will create as many jobs as it displaces, pushed back against the doom-and-gloom forecasts of some industry insiders, saying that the recent wave of corporate layoffs was not driven by AI.
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