As workers worry about AI, Nvidia s Jensen Huang says AI is creating an enormous number of jobs
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The Nvidia CEO seems to feel that claims of AI's job-killing potential have been greatly exaggerated.
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Image Credits: Justin Sullivan AI As workers worry about AI, Nvidia Jensen Huang says AI is creating an enormous number of jobs Lucas Ropek 8:31 PM PDT · May 4, 2026 When it comes to the specter of AI s labor-displacing potential, Jensen Huang thinks that the American worker has nothing to fear. During a conversation Monday night with MSNBC Becky Quick hosted by the Milken Institute an economic policy think tank, the jovial Nvidia CEO said that AI was an industrial-scale generator of jobs, not the harbinger of mass unemployment that so-called AI doomers have often accused it of being.
A number of different topics were broached during the talk, but a central theme that kept coming back was the ongoing economic anxiety surrounding the AI industry and whether it was something Americans should be legitimately worried about. At one point Quick noted: This is happening so quickly. Is there a bigger dislocation than we ve seen in the past that leads to greater inequality? And what do we do about that?
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