GoKawiilListen to this post
It took some autoreplies on Slack and email to convince Sam Altman that he was mistaken about the AI causing an entry-level jobs apocalypse.
The OpenAI CEO said Tuesday that AI has not wiped out white-collar jobs as fast as he once feared, according to Reuters. Speaking virtually at a Commonwealth Bank of Australia conference in Sydney, he said he had expected far more positions to vanish by now. “I’m delighted to be wrong about this,” he said.
What changed his mind was surprisingly personal. Altman had been using AI to answer his Slack and email messages, even setting it to reply on his behalf. The experiment backfired after he realized how much he valued genuine human interaction. That “human part” of work, he concluded, can’t easily be outsourced to machines. His new outlook arrives as OpenAI prepares to confidentially file for a U.S. IPO that could value the company at $1 trillion.