Tech CEOs Walk Back Dire AI Job Loss Predictions

Predictions about artificial intelligence-related job losses are switching from apocalyptic to optimistic, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday (July 6). Attitudes among tech CEOs about AI’s impact on the labor force are changing, the report said. “We’ve been roughly right on technological predictions and pretty wrong on the social and economic implications,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said at a conference in May, per the report.