- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang isn’t sure about Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s recent predictions about AI-driven job automation. Speaking at VivaTech in Paris, Huang pushed back on the idea that AI could soon replace half of all entry-level office roles and questioned the philosophy behind limiting AI development to a few actors.
Jensen Huang is not on board with some of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s predictions about advanced AI. Responding to a question about Amodei’s recent prediction that AI could automate up to half of all entry-level office jobs within five years, Huang said he “pretty much disagree[d] with almost everything” his fellow AI 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.”
Anthropic was founded by Amodei and other former OpenAI employees in 2021 with safety as one of its core missions. Many of Anthropic’s founding team reportedly left OpenAI owing to disagreements about the direction and safety culture at the company.
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. He has also raised concerns about the economic impact of AI—particularly on entry-level jobs. Dario stands by these positions and will continue to do so.”
Amodei has made several public statements about his belief in the potential existential risks of AI. He’s said that he believes humanity may one day lose control of AI systems if they become smarter than humans. He’s also raised concerns about rogue actors weaponizing advanced AI to create bioweapons, engineer cyberattacks, or unleash tools of mass disruption long before machines surpass human intelligence.
More recently, in an interview with Axios, he predicted AI could wipe out roughly 50% of all entry-level white-collar jobs andurged lawmakers to prepare now to protect people’s livelihoods.
Huang acknowledged that the tech may have some impact on employees, but dismissed Amodei’s recent bold claim.
“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,” he said.
Quantum computing’s ‘inflection point’
Huang made the comments in a press briefing following Nvidia’s GTC Paris conference, where the company announced a new partnership with French startup Mistral as part of a push to develop European computing capacity.
Huang said Nvidia had more than 20 “AI factories” in the works across the continent, promising European researchers and startups that their “GPU shortage will be resolved” soon.
The CEO also touched on Nvidia’s quantum computing efforts, spotlighting Nvidia’s hybrid quantum-classical platform, CUDA-Q, and claiming that quantum computing is hitting an “inflection point.” Huang said that the tech could start solving real-world problems in the next few years.