New Delhi: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took to X (formerly Twitter) to share his thoughts on AI and the future of work, echoing sentiments recently expressed by NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang. While the AI debate often revolves around job loss and automation, Altman’s post stood out for its human tone and surprisingly hopeful perspective.
Altman’s take comes at a time when artificial intelligence tools are moving fast into the workplace, from coding assistants to design tools and even fully automated customer support bots. But according to Altman, the conversation around jobs doesn’t need to be all doom and gloom. He suggests the roles of tomorrow might feel completely alien today, but they’ll still carry meaning for those living in that future.
Altman backs Jensen Huang’s view on jobs and AI
In his post, Altman said he agrees with “lots of what Jensen has been saying about AI and jobs” and that “there is a ton of stuff to do in the world.”
He outlined three key points:
- “People will do a lot more than they could do before; ability and expectation will both go up.”
- “People will still care very much about other people and what they do.”
- “People will still be very driven by creating and being useful to others.”
It’s a perspective that focuses less on the fear of replacement and more on the idea that human ambition, creativity, and curiosity won’t disappear just because AI tools are doing more.
Altman added, “For sure jobs will be very different, and maybe the jobs of the future will look like playing games to us today while still being very meaningful to those people of the future. (People of the past might say that about us.)”
Human creativity will still lead the way
The OpenAI chief believes that betting against humans, our need for connection, our love for new things, and our ability to find new ways to express ourselves, is “always a bad bet.”
He wrote, “Maybe human money and machine money will be totally different things, who knows, but we have a LOT of main character energy.”
That phrase, “main character energy”, feels fitting for a time when AI is everywhere, yet people are still at the center of the tech conversation. Whether it’s generative art, voice tools, or coding copilots, humans are still the ones steering the story, at least for now.
Altman ended the post with a short note: “More to come.” And given how fast AI is moving, it’s likely he won’t be the only one adding to this discussion in the days ahead.
His remarks come just weeks after Huang argued that AI will not replace people but enable them to do more. Together, their comments hint at a growing push within the industry to shift the narrative, from fear of job losses to the possibilities of new kinds of work.
For now, it seems the future of work isn’t just about machines. It’s about how we choose to work with them.