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Eric Hal Schwartz

The AI industry’s latest hot take: Jensen Huang says CEOs are using AI as a convenient excuse for layoffs — 'I think the narrative that connects AI to job loss for many of the CEOs that are doing it, it is just too lazy'

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang talking at Milken Institute event.

AI has become a ubiquitous presence in nearly every corporate discussion over the past few years, both positive and negative. Companies have claimed the technology as a boon to the bottom line while simultaneously pointing to it as the cause of job losses, sometimes hundreds or thousands of them at once. A recent comment from Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is drawing attention for pushing back on that idea, however.

“I think the narrative that connects AI to job loss for many of the CEOs that are doing it, it is just too lazy,” Huang told Singapore broadcaster CNA. “How is it possible that AI became productive and useful only six months ago, and they were somehow laying people off two years ago because of AI?”

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