Jensen Huang at YC Startup School: The White-Collar Bloodbath Narrative Is 'Exactly Backwards' — AI Kills Tasks, Not Jobs
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Speaking at Y Combinator's Startup School over the weekend and reported July 28, Huang drew the distinction he now leads with: 'Many tasks will be automated away. Every single job will change, and there'll be a whole bunch of new jobs.' He called the AI-destroys-jobs framing 'exactly backwards' and argued AI produces net job growth. It is a direct rebuttal to Dario Amodei's repeated forecast that AI erases up to half of entry-level white-collar roles — the two most-quoted CEOs in the industry are now publicly on opposite sides of the labor question.