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Emma Burleigh

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky warns two types of people won’t survive the AI era: ‘pure people managers’ and workers who resist change

Airbnb cofounder and CEO Brian Chesky (Credit: Gerald Matzka / Stringer / Getty Images)

Tech leaders have spent the past few years warning workers that AI will threaten every single job, from computer programming and customer service to law and finance. But according to Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky, the biggest risk to professionals isn’t the technology itself—it’s refusing to evolve alongside it. And in his view, there are two kinds of employees who “will not survive the age of AI.”

“The two types of people who will not make the shift to AI are pure people managers, and people that are rigid and don’t want to change and evolve,” Chesky said on the Invest Like The Best podcast earlier this year.

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