As executives race to boost productivity and automate work with AI, workers have been left to ponder an existential question: How much work will actually be left for humans? But if you ask Jensen Huang—the CEO of the world’s most valuable company, Nvidia—the answer is plenty.
“Don’t forget the chip plants that are being created—packaging, computer plants, and all of the AI factories being created—hundreds of thousands of jobs are being created as we speak,” Huang said on Fox Business last week.
The billionaire was responding to newfound concerns from Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates about AI’s disruption of the workforce. Gates warned in a letter last week that the technology is being underestimated and could ultimately lead to massive unemployment. Huang, meanwhile, has remained optimistic that AI will create more jobs than it eliminates.
“Everybody’s job changes,” Huang said. “Some jobs will be eliminated. Many new jobs will be created. If you go back and look at history and technology, revolutionary technology comes along, incredible advances come along.”
Huang added that white-collar jobs aren’t going anywhere anytime soon, while predicting a major boom in the skilled trades. The massive infrastructure buildout fueling the AI boom is already driving demand for hundreds of thousands of skilled plumbers, electricians, technicians, and other six-figure earning workers needed to build and maintain the technology.
