OpenAI CEO Sam Altman states that AI has been a net job creator so far, contrary to his expectations
Although he was not initially so pessimistic, he still believes there should be some employment impact at the current level of capability.
In market mechanisms, AI technology companies and adopting enterprises become buyers, benefiting from a partial transformation of the labor market, with funds flowing from traditional positions to AI-related new roles and skills training, traditional industries under pressure while the emerging AI ecosystem expands.
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Since leading OpenAI, Sam Altman has frequently discussed the long-term impact of AI on employment, previously acknowledging the disruptive nature of technology but emphasizing the historical trend that technological waves ultimately create more jobs, maintaining his optimistic stance on technological acceleration.
On the capital path, OpenAI promotes the implementation of AI tools through model releases and corporate partnerships, motivated by expanding ecosystem adoption and creating new application scenarios, reallocating resources from model training to developer tools and industry integration, strategically positioning AI as a productivity amplifier rather than a mere replacer.
Similar to the initial decline and subsequent rise in employment during the early adoption of the internet and personal computers, as well as job restructuring during the industrial revolution, AI is currently in the early expansion phase of net job creation.
Essentially, it involves technological substitution accompanied by creation: while AI capabilities enhance and replace some routine tasks, they also create more new positions by lowering the barriers to entrepreneurship and innovation, fundamentally reshaping the demand structure of the labor market and driving a shift from execution-type to creative and coordination-type work.
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The stronger the technology, the more employment is restructured rather than eliminated.
Pessimistic expectations often underestimate human adaptability and the creation of new opportunities.
AI is not a zero-sum game, but a lever to enlarge the pie.