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Yahoo
18-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Here's what CEOs are telling their employees about how to use AI — and how not to lose their jobs to it
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said "efficiency gains" from AI would mean fewer workers at the company. AI's impact on jobs has been hotly debated as it completes or accelerates certain tasks. CEOs have previously given advice on how to survive the AI revolution. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has told employees that "efficiency gains" from AI would reduce the company's "total corporate workforce" in the next few years. Jassy may be the most prominent CEO to say AI is coming for people's jobs, but he's far from the first. This is the advice CEOs have been giving about how to use AI — and avoid losing your job as a tech revolution threatens to reinvent the world of work. Micha Kaufman, CEO of Fiverr, one of the world's largest freelance marketplaces, warned in an email to his team that: "AI is coming for your jobs. Heck, it's coming for my job too. This is a wake-up call." Whether you are a programmer, designer, product manager, data scientist, or lawyer, "Al is coming for you," he wrote in the email, which he shared on X. "You must understand that what was once considered 'easy tasks' will no longer exist; what was considered 'hard tasks' will be the new easy, and what was considered 'impossible tasks' will be the new hard," he said. Kaufman continued: "If you do not become an exceptional talent at what you do, a master, you will face the need for a career change in a matter of months." "I am not talking about your job at Fiverr," he added. "I am talking about your ability to stay in your profession in the industry." "Every job will be affected, and immediately. It is unquestionable. You're not going to lose your job to an AI, but you're going to lose your job to someone who uses AI," chipmaker Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang said at the Milken Institute's Global Conference in May. "What used to be human-coded softwares running on CPUs are now machine learning generated softwares running on GPUs," Huang said at The Hill and Valley Forum in April. But he added that "every single layer, the tooling of it, the compilers of it, the methodology of it, the way you collect data, curate data, use AI to guard rails, use AI to teach, use AI to keep the AI safe, all of that technology is being invented right now and it creates tons of jobs." "I don't know exactly what's going to happen with AI, but I do know it's going to fundamentally change the way we work, and we have to get ahead of it," Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn said on LinkedIn earlier this year. He was responding to a backlash against previous comments about enthusiastically embracing AI. "AI is creating uncertainty for all of us, and we can respond to this with fear or curiosity," the language app's CEO wrote. "I've always encouraged our team to embrace new technology (that's why we originally built for mobile instead of desktop), and we are taking that same approach with AI." He added: "To be clear: I do not see AI as replacing what our employees do (we are in fact continuing to hire at the same speed as before). I see it as a tool to accelerate what we do, at the same or better level of quality. And the sooner we learn how to use it, and use it responsibly, the better off we will be in the long run." Lowe's CEO Marvin Ellison said his advice was to "stay as close to the cash register as you can." "When young people come to me and they desire to work in the corporate office, my advice to them is: stay as close to the cash register as you can," Ellison said at a Business Roundtable forum in DC this month. "Stay close to the customers, because you will always have employment opportunities to grow," he added. He also said, "AI isn't going to fix a hole in your roof." "It's not going to respond to an electrical issue in your home. It's not going to stop your water heater from leaking," he said. "You are generation AI," LinkedIn CEO Reid Hoffman said in a video in which he answered questions from college students on how they should navigate the job hunt. "You are AI native, so bringing the fact that you have AI in your tool set is one of the things that makes you enormously attractive," he added. Hoffman said that AI's impact on jobs was a "legitimate worry," but he added that students could try to use it to their advantage. "Look, on this side, it's transforming the workspace, entry-level work, employers' confusion," he said. "But on this side, it's making you able to show your unique capabilities." "In an environment with a bunch of older people, you might be able to help them out," he added. Lattice boss Sarah Franklin told Business Insider that corporate leaders should be focused on how AI can help with efficiency. The HR software company CEO said this includes using AI to give employees "superpowers to where they feel like they're stepping into the Iron Man suit" and accomplishing what they need to in their jobs without feeling swamped. She said that might include using AI to give each employee at a company an executive assistant or a coach. Read the original article on Business Insider Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Yahoo
18-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Here's what CEOs are telling their employees about how to use AI — and how not to lose their jobs to it
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said "efficiency gains" from AI would mean fewer workers at the company. AI's impact on jobs has been hotly debated as it completes or accelerates certain tasks. CEOs have previously given advice on how to survive the AI revolution. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has told employees that "efficiency gains" from AI would reduce the company's "total corporate workforce" in the next few years. Jassy may be the most prominent CEO to say AI is coming for people's jobs, but he's far from the first. This is the advice CEOs have been giving about how to use AI — and avoid losing your job as a tech revolution threatens to reinvent the world of work. Micha Kaufman, CEO of Fiverr, one of the world's largest freelance marketplaces, warned in an email to his team that: "AI is coming for your jobs. Heck, it's coming for my job too. This is a wake-up call." Whether you are a programmer, designer, product manager, data scientist, or lawyer, "Al is coming for you," he wrote in the email, which he shared on X. "You must understand that what was once considered 'easy tasks' will no longer exist; what was considered 'hard tasks' will be the new easy, and what was considered 'impossible tasks' will be the new hard," he said. Kaufman continued: "If you do not become an exceptional talent at what you do, a master, you will face the need for a career change in a matter of months." "I am not talking about your job at Fiverr," he added. "I am talking about your ability to stay in your profession in the industry." "Every job will be affected, and immediately. It is unquestionable. You're not going to lose your job to an AI, but you're going to lose your job to someone who uses AI," chipmaker Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang said at the Milken Institute's Global Conference in May. "What used to be human-coded softwares running on CPUs are now machine learning generated softwares running on GPUs," Huang said at The Hill and Valley Forum in April. But he added that "every single layer, the tooling of it, the compilers of it, the methodology of it, the way you collect data, curate data, use AI to guard rails, use AI to teach, use AI to keep the AI safe, all of that technology is being invented right now and it creates tons of jobs." "I don't know exactly what's going to happen with AI, but I do know it's going to fundamentally change the way we work, and we have to get ahead of it," Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn said on LinkedIn earlier this year. He was responding to a backlash against previous comments about enthusiastically embracing AI. "AI is creating uncertainty for all of us, and we can respond to this with fear or curiosity," the language app's CEO wrote. "I've always encouraged our team to embrace new technology (that's why we originally built for mobile instead of desktop), and we are taking that same approach with AI." He added: "To be clear: I do not see AI as replacing what our employees do (we are in fact continuing to hire at the same speed as before). I see it as a tool to accelerate what we do, at the same or better level of quality. And the sooner we learn how to use it, and use it responsibly, the better off we will be in the long run." Lowe's CEO Marvin Ellison said his advice was to "stay as close to the cash register as you can." "When young people come to me and they desire to work in the corporate office, my advice to them is: stay as close to the cash register as you can," Ellison said at a Business Roundtable forum in DC this month. "Stay close to the customers, because you will always have employment opportunities to grow," he added. He also said, "AI isn't going to fix a hole in your roof." "It's not going to respond to an electrical issue in your home. It's not going to stop your water heater from leaking," he said. "You are generation AI," LinkedIn CEO Reid Hoffman said in a video in which he answered questions from college students on how they should navigate the job hunt. "You are AI native, so bringing the fact that you have AI in your tool set is one of the things that makes you enormously attractive," he added. Hoffman said that AI's impact on jobs was a "legitimate worry," but he added that students could try to use it to their advantage. "Look, on this side, it's transforming the workspace, entry-level work, employers' confusion," he said. "But on this side, it's making you able to show your unique capabilities." "In an environment with a bunch of older people, you might be able to help them out," he added. Lattice boss Sarah Franklin told Business Insider that corporate leaders should be focused on how AI can help with efficiency. The HR software company CEO said this includes using AI to give employees "superpowers to where they feel like they're stepping into the Iron Man suit" and accomplishing what they need to in their jobs without feeling swamped. She said that might include using AI to give each employee at a company an executive assistant or a coach. Read the original article on Business Insider
Business Insider
18-06-2025
- Business
- Business Insider
Here's what CEOs are telling their employees about how to use AI — and how not to lose their jobs to it
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said "efficiency gains" from AI would mean fewer workers at the company. AI's impact on jobs has been hotly debated as it completes or accelerates certain tasks. CEOs have previously given advice on how to survive the AI revolution. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has told employees that "efficiency gains" from AI would reduce the company's " total corporate workforce" in the next few years. Jassy may be the most prominent CEO to say AI is coming for people's jobs, but he's far from the first. This is the advice CEOs have been giving about how to use AI — and avoid losing your job as a tech revolution threatens to reinvent the world of work. Fiverr CEO Micha Kaufman: Become exceptional at what you do Micha Kaufman, CEO of Fiverr, one of the world's largest freelance marketplaces, warned in an email to his team that: "AI is coming for your jobs. Heck, it's coming for my job too. This is a wake-up call." Whether you are a programmer, designer, product manager, data scientist, or lawyer, "Al is coming for you," he wrote in the email, which he shared on X. "You must understand that what was once considered 'easy tasks' will no longer exist; what was considered 'hard tasks' will be the new easy, and what was considered 'impossible tasks' will be the new hard," he said. Kaufman continued: "If you do not become an exceptional talent at what you do, a master, you will face the need for a career change in a matter of months." "I am not talking about your job at Fiverr," he added. "I am talking about your ability to stay in your profession in the industry." Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang: Competition is between those who can use AI and those who can't "Every job will be affected, and immediately. It is unquestionable. You're not going to lose your job to an AI, but you're going to lose your job to someone who uses AI," chipmaker Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang said at the Milken Institute's Global Conference in May. "What used to be human-coded softwares running on CPUs are now machine learning generated softwares running on GPUs," Huang said at The Hill and Valley Forum in April. But he added that "every single layer, the tooling of it, the compilers of it, the methodology of it, the way you collect data, curate data, use AI to guard rails, use AI to teach, use AI to keep the AI safe, all of that technology is being invented right now and it creates tons of jobs." Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn: Respond to AI with curiosity, not fear "I don't know exactly what's going to happen with AI, but I do know it's going to fundamentally change the way we work, and we have to get ahead of it," Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn said on LinkedIn earlier this year. He was responding to a backlash against previous comments about enthusiastically embracing AI. "AI is creating uncertainty for all of us, and we can respond to this with fear or curiosity," the language app's CEO wrote. "I've always encouraged our team to embrace new technology (that's why we originally built for mobile instead of desktop), and we are taking that same approach with AI." He added: "To be clear: I do not see AI as replacing what our employees do (we are in fact continuing to hire at the same speed as before). I see it as a tool to accelerate what we do, at the same or better level of quality. And the sooner we learn how to use it, and use it responsibly, the better off we will be in the long run." Lowe's CEO Marvin Ellison: 'Stay close to the cash register' Lowe's CEO Marvin Ellison said his advice was to "stay as close to the cash register as you can." "When young people come to me and they desire to work in the corporate office, my advice to them is: stay as close to the cash register as you can," Ellison said at a Business Roundtable forum in DC this month. "Stay close to the customers, because you will always have employment opportunities to grow," he added. He also said, "AI isn't going to fix a hole in your roof." "It's not going to respond to an electrical issue in your home. It's not going to stop your water heater from leaking," he said. LinkedIn CEO Reid Hoffman: Show off your AI skills to employers "You are generation AI," LinkedIn CEO Reid Hoffman said in a video in which he answered questions from college students on how they should navigate the job hunt. "You are AI native, so bringing the fact that you have AI in your tool set is one of the things that makes you enormously attractive," he added. Hoffman said that AI's impact on jobs was a "legitimate worry," but he added that students could try to use it to their advantage. "Look, on this side, it's transforming the workspace, entry-level work, employers' confusion," he said. "But on this side, it's making you able to show your unique capabilities." "In an environment with a bunch of older people, you might be able to help them out," he added. Lattice CEO Sarah Franklin: Bosses should give workers AI to do jobs without feeling swamped Lattice boss Sarah Franklin told Business Insider that corporate leaders should be focused on how AI can help with efficiency. The HR software company CEO said this includes using AI to give employees "superpowers to where they feel like they're stepping into the Iron Man suit" and accomplishing what they need to in their jobs without feeling swamped. She said that might include using AI to give each employee at a company an executive assistant or a coach.
CNBC
28-05-2025
- Business
- CNBC
Nvidia CEO: You won't lose your job to AI—you'll 'lose your job to somebody who uses AI'
You probably don't need to worry about a robot taking your job, says Nvidia CEO and co-founder Jensen Huang. You should, however, expect your job status to be threatened by people who understand artificial intelligence better than you do, Huang said at the Milken Institute's Global Conference 2025 on May 6. "Every job will be affected, and immediately. It is unquestionable," said Huang, 62, whose $3.3 trillion company designs some of the computer chips that power popular AI tools. "You're not going to lose your job to an AI, but you're going to lose your job to someone who uses AI." There aren't any job postings on Indeed that AI can do completely on its own, CEO Chris Hyams told CNBC Make It on March 31. But two-thirds of roles on the platform include tasks that AI can perform reasonably well, said Hyams. Humans who can train AI systems to do so are becoming more desirable for employers, said Huang: "There are about 30 million people in the world who know how to program and use this technology to its extreme. The instrument we invented, we know how to use, but the other 7-and-a-half billion people don't."Not every CEO in the AI industry fully agrees with Huang. The tech could eliminate half of all entry-level white-collar jobs within the next one-to-five years, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei told Axios on Wednesday. "Cancer is cured, the economy grows at 10% a year, the budget is balanced — and 20% of people don't have jobs," Amodei predicted, adding that he sees AI evolving from assisting many entry-level jobs to automating their responsibilities entirely. One potential end result, he said: CEOs will simply stop listing as many new jobs for hire. Companies like Shopify, Duolingo and Fiverr are already encouraging — or mandating — that some, or all, of their employees incorporate AI into their work. At Shopify, managers are encouraged to exhaust those tools before asking for more headcount, according to a company-wide memo from CEO Tobi Lutke. Huang, for his part, has said that AI will lead to at least some job creation, particularly in fields like software engineering and computer programming. "What used to be human-coded softwares running on CPUs are now machine learning generated softwares running on GPUs," he said at The Hill and Valley Forum in April. "Every single layer of the tooling of it ... is being invented right now and it creates tons of jobs at the next layer ... A whole bunch of new trade jobs have to be created." Huang has frequently touted AI's current ability to help workers do their jobs more efficiently. He personally uses chatbots like Google's Gemini and OpenAI's ChatGPT to write his first drafts, he said on a January 7 episode of Wharton organizational psychologist Adam Grant's "ReThinking" podcast. You can also use these tools for more complex projects, he noted at the conference. "If you don't know how to program a computer, you just tell the AI, 'I don't know how to program [computers]. How do I program them?' And the AI will tell you exactly how to [do so]," he said. "You could draw a schematic and show it to it. You could draw a picture and ask it what to do." His recommendation: Get comfortable with AI, especially if you're a student. Billionaire entrepreneur and investor Mark Cuban similarly advises students to learn how to use AI tools. "When I talk to kids today and they ask me what I would do if I were 12 today, my answer is always the same, read books and learn how to use [artificial intelligence] in every way, shape and form you can," Cuban, 66, wrote in a February 17 post on social media platform BlueSky. Since 2019, Cuban has committed millions of dollars to hosting free AI bootcamps for high school students in low-income U.S. areas. His programs aim to help develop "under-appreciated" talent who can ultimately help boost the country's global competitiveness, he told the Wall Street Journal in October 2020. At the conference, Huang expressed a complementary viewpoint. "You could argue that artificial intelligence is probably our best way to increase the GDP," he said. "Don't be that person who ignores this technology ... Take advantage of AI." ,
