Anthropic's CEO is Wrong, AI Won't Eliminate Half of White-Collar Jobs, Says NVIDIA's CEO

Last week Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said AI could eliminate half the entry-level white-collar jobs within five years. CNN called the remarks 'part of the AI hype machine.'

Asked about the prediction this week at a Paris tech conference, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang acknowledged AI may impact some employees, but 'dismissed' Amodei's claim, according to Fortune. 'Everybody's jobs will be changed. Some jobs will be obsolete, but many jobs are going to be created... Whenever companies are more productive, they hire more people.'

And he also said he 'pretty much' disagreed 'with almost everything' Anthropic's CEO says.

'One, he believes that AI is so scary that only they should do it,' Huang said of Amodei at a press briefing at Viva Technology in Paris. 'Two, [he believes] that AI is so expensive, nobody else should do it... And three, AI is so incredibly powerful that everyone will lose their jobs, which explains why they should be the only company building it. I think AI is a very important technology; we should build it and advance it safely and responsibly,' Huang continued. 'If you want things to be done safely and responsibly, you do it in the open... Don't do it in a dark room and tell me it's safe.'

An Anthropic spokesperson told Fortune in a statement: 'Dario has never claimed that 'only Anthropic' can build safe and powerful AI. As the public record will show, Dario has advocated for a national transparency standard for AI developers (including Anthropic) so the public and policymakers are aware of the models' capabilities and risks and can prepare accordingly.
NVIDIA's CEO also touted their hybrid quantum-classical platformCUDA-Q and claimed quantum computing is hitting an 'inflection point' and within a few years could start solving real-world problems

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