ChatGPT Creator Sam Altman Discusses Job Losses and the Future of Work

ChatGPT’s parent company, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman talked about the possibility of AI taking away human jobs in an interview. He also said that newer jobs will also be created for humans.

ChatGPT’s parent company OpenAI’s CEO, Sam Altman, has often admitted the possibility of AI taking away human jobs. However, he has also said that due to the boom in AI, a lot of newer jobs will also be created for humans. The young entrepreneur, who is behind the chatbot that has the potential to change the world, talked about the future of AI in an interview with Economic Times.

Sam Altman on AI taking human jobs

In conversation with the publication, Altman said that ‘some jobs’ will be going away due to AI but new ones will be created as well. When he was asked if AI will cause job loss, the CEO said, “Every tech revolution leads to job change. In two generations, we can adapt to any amount of labor market change and there are new jobs and they are usually better. That is going to happen here, too. Some jobs are going to go away. There will be new, better jobs that are difficult to imagine today.“

Sam Altman also talked about AI regulation in the interview. Recently, the OpenAI CEO made headlines for talking about AI regulation in front of US lawmakers. He had said that OpenAI is willing to cooperate with the government in order to ensure that AI is regulated.

Talking about AI regulation with ET, he said that it is important but only for the big players in the market. Smaller companies shouldn’t have to worry about AI regulations. He said, “We have explicitly said there should be no regulation on smaller companies. The only regulation we have called for is on ourselves and people bigger.”