Few technological advances have generated such an alarm signal in society. Since Y2K, we haven’t seen anything like this. Ordinary people are afraid that their jobs will disappear. That tomorrow, when they wake up, they discover that an AI is already busy doing its job. It is terrifying to imagine but it is the nightmare of 75% of Americans, according to a Gallup poll from August 2024.
But ‘Nvidia’ CEO Jensen Huang takes on the mainstream to claim that The job will not be taken away from us by AI, but will be done by other humans who know how to handle it. This could be a ray of hope amid a tide of uncertainty. Because we all have opportunities within our reach to train in the management of this technology.
The impact of AI at work
“You are not going to lose your job because of an AI,” explains the CEO of ‘Nvidia’ at the Milken Institute’s 2025 Global Conference, “but because of someone who uses it.” This is how Jensen Huang has summarized his opinion on the controversial dispute over the impact that AI can have on our society, and on our jobs.
Your point is that There are no job postings on regular search platforms that AI can do entirely without human assistance.. “But two-thirds of the positions on the platform include tasks that AI can reasonably perform,” adds the expert.
From their perspective, what we should do is not fear artificial intelligence, but rather train ourselves to learn how to handle it. “There are around 30 million people in the world who know how to program and use this technology to the fullest. We know how to use the instrument we invented, but the other 7.5 billion people do not,” says the CEO.
Other experts are not so optimistic. In his book, The coming wave: technology, power and the biggest dilemma of the 21st centuryMustafa Suleyman, current CEO of AI at Microsoft, makes his own predictions. “They will make us smarter and more efficient for a while”explains the expert, “but fundamentally they are replacing labor.”
From his perspective, “the spread of AI will be enormously destabilizing for hundreds of millions of people who, at a minimum, will need to retrain and adapt to new types of work.”
We will be smarter
Although it seems that we do not have it all on our side, Huang’s position can be, to some extent, inspiring. As long as we consider that this CEO’s company manufactures computer chips that have driven advances in AI, so his advice is not without some interest.
Beyond that, however, it is true that AI can, to a certain extent, help us enhance our abilities. Jensen Huang himself claims that he has “a personal tutor” that he can carry with him at all times, and that tutor is AI. “If there is one thing I would encourage everyone to do, it is to look for an AI tutor immediately,” he said in an interview with journalist Cleo Abram.
His bet is that it will make us more intelligent if we use it in this way, since, he assures, it can “teach you things, anything you want: help you program, write, analyze, think, reason. And all of these things will make you feel really empowered, and I think that’s going to be our future.”
Nuances about intelligence
The CEO’s perspective can be nuanced in many ways. For example, we could clarify that no AI can help you think or reason, which are logical processes inherent to the human being that, until now, generative artificial intelligence (the model we are developing) cannot do.
Let us not forget that this type of technology It returns us probable responses created based on the data it is fed. That is, from what it can extract from its users and the Internet. And what did we learn in the 2000s about believing everything we read on the internet?
Unfortunately, and although the CEO of ‘Nvidia’ wants to paint it that way, learning requires a critical thinking process that only a human being can perform. AI lacks critical thinking. What it can do is help us find information that we must later compare. Because yes, AI makes mistakes.
Understanding the limitations of AI and understanding it as a tool that can enhance our abilities, and not replace them, is key to avoiding an effect that has already been perceived in different studies.
And, according to an MIT study, the use we have made of ChatGPT during its first four months of existence has not made us smarter. On the contrary, has deteriorated our neural, linguistic and behavioral performance. And this is due, in large part, to the incorrect use we make of this technology.
Flexibility as salvation in turbulent times
Learn about the use of AI will undoubtedly give us an advantage in the futureand there are already many great leaders who recommend that the youngest learn to manage and train it. However, we cannot do this without using critical thinking.
AI should not think for us, it should not reason for us. AI can help us compare hundreds of pieces of data a minute, search for information at high speed or offer help with repetitive and automatable tasks. But it should never replace human intelligence.
Because in The moment we allow a machine to tell us what to think, As a society, we will have lost a game that we have been losing for years.