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- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang doubled down on his vision for "AI employees" in a recent interview.
- Huang said he sees AI agents in all areas, including marketing and chip design.
- The CEO said he believes AI agents will be specialized and rented out by other companies.
Don't be surprised if your future coworker is an AI.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang recently talked about why he thinks we'll all be working alongside "AI employees" eventually.
"There's no question we're gonna have AI employees of all kinds," Huang told the podcast "No Priors" in an episode published Thursday.
Huang said he sees AI employees taking on all kinds of roles, including in areas like marketing, chip design, and supply chain.
He believes the AI workers will be prompted the same way as human employees are today, such as by asking them to perform a mission, providing them with context, and engaging in back-and-forth conversations.
Huang is referring to a concept he's mentioned before. At a fireside chat with Wired in July, Huang talked about the concept of "digital agents" that would "augment every single job in the company."
A few weeks ago, Huang shared more on the idea in an episode of the "BG2" podcast. He talked about a future in which AIs will recruit other AIs to solve problems while existing in Slack channels with themselves and other humans.
The Nvidia CEO said that while this will change some jobs, it will also help secure employment. Huang said companies that use AI to become more productive will likely see better earnings or growth — and that's unlikely to lead to layoffs.
While some people might think SAAS platforms would be interrupted, Huang said in his recent podcast appearance that he thinks they're "sitting on a gold mine" of "flourishing agents" that specialize in various areas, collaborate with each other, and get rented out by other companies.
Huang said Nvidia would create an AI agent for Open USD and "totally imagines" chip design company Synopsys with rentable chip designers.
"I might rent a million Synopsis engineers to come and help me out and then go rent a million Cadence engineers to help me out," Huang said.
Other CEOs have painted a similar picture of AI employees joining the workforce.
Zoom CEO Eric Yuan recently used the term "digital twins" to describe AI clones that attend meetings and write emails for employees so that they can do other things, like "go to the beach." Yuan said it could reduce the workweek to three or four days.
Such a future may seem far away, yet Google CEO Sundar Pichai said in the company's most recent earnings call that AI is already generating 25% of the company's code, which engineers then review and accept.
And while Huang argues the benefits to a company's business from AI workers would stave off layoffs, it's worth noting that cuts could still occur as companies make adjustments as the technology evolves.
Klarna's CEO received backlash in May after posting on social media that AI let his marketing team, which is "half the size it was last year," save $10 million while accomplishing more work.