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SYDNEY — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on Tuesday (May 26) the rapid development and adoption of AI would not lead to a global “jobs apocalypse” and the technology had not claimed as many white-collar jobs as he had feared.<\/p>\n

Speaking at a Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) conference in Sydney, Altman said he was initially concerned about the impact AI would have on global employment levels.<\/p>\n

He said he and his executives had been “roughly right” on the technological predictions made by OpenAI when it launched ChatGPT in 2022. <\/p>\n

But he said they were “pretty wrong” on the social and economic implications.<\/p>\n

“I’m delighted to be wrong about this, I thought there would have been more impact on entry-level white-collar jobs being eliminated by now than has actually happened,” Altman told CBA Chief Executive Matt Comyn in an interview.<\/p>\n

“I now think I understand more about why it hasn’t, and I’m obviously grateful but that is an area where my intuitions were just off.<\/p>\n

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“People are like ‘oh you could have saved the world a lot of fear mongering and a lot of doom and gloom’ but at the time I was like ‘I see this is a real risk we should probably talk about it’ and it still may.”<\/p>\n

Altman did not cite any jobs numbers on Tuesday but has previously talked about potential industry-wide job cuts due to AI’s advancement.<\/p>\n

A growing number of global companies, including HSBC, Amazon, Standard Chartered and CBA have announced some jobs within their companies were being replaced by AI.<\/p>\n

OpenAI is preparing to confidentially file for a US initial public offering in the coming weeks, Reuters reported last week, citing a source familiar with the matter. <\/p>\n

The company could be aiming for a US$1 trillion (S$1.28 trillion) valuation and raising at least US$60 billion, Reuters reported in October.<\/p>\n

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Altman said he had realised that even though AI was taking on an increasingly active role in many industries and jobs, there was still a ‘human part’ of employment that could not be replaced.<\/p>\n

He said he had been using AI to respond to Slack and email messages but had reverted to answering some himself.<\/p>\n

“I had it reply to messages, saying ‘this is Sam’s AI’ and it was an amazing example to me of we really do care about people,” he said.<\/p>\n

“We really do care about our interactions with people and this thing, which is a huge amount of my time, is not something that I can imagine myself outsourcing to an AI anytime soon.”<\/p>\n

That realisation, he said, had made him believe the human interaction required in many jobs would not be replaced by AI.<\/p>\n

“It really, in both positive and negative ways, updated me to thinking that the jobs picture is likely to be very different than we thought,” he said.<\/p>\n

“I don’t think we’re going to have the kind of jobs apocalypse that some of the companies in our space advocate or talk about.”<\/p>\n

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OpenAI’s Altman says AI unlikely to lead to ‘jobs apocalypse’<\/div>\n

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SYDNEY — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on Tuesday (May 26) the rapid development and adoption of AI would not lead to a global “jobs apocalypse” and the technology had not claimed as many white-collar jobs as he had feared. Speaking at a Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) conference in Sydney, Altman said he was…<\/p>\n

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