Jamie Dimon has a message for the class of 2026: stop worrying about AI taking your job and start developing the skills no algorithm can replicate.
The JPMorgan Chase chairman and CEO, speaking Friday on Fox Business’ Mornings with Maria, used the season’s graduation backdrop to offer one of his most direct career pep talks yet — even as he simultaneously delivered a more sobering set of remarks to New York City’s new progressive mayor, Zohran Mamdani.
“Learn how to think, learn how to earn respect, have E.Q., learn how to communicate, learn to have a heart, have empathy, all that,” Dimon said when asked what advice he’d give to graduates anxious about entering a workforce being rapidly reshaped by artificial intelligence. “You’ll have a great life.”
Dimon, whose grandparents immigrated from Greece and Italy and never finished high school, framed the moment in explicitly American terms. “The notion that we don’t have this unbelievable country — our system morphs. It will create jobs,” he said.
The remarks came amid Dimon’s broader, and considerably more cautious, read on the economy. He described the outlook as “pretty good” but flagged rising inflation as the clearest near-term risk, warning that his probabilities of a worse outcome are higher than others’.
