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Sam Altman says learning AI will keep humans employed. Here's why else the robots might not take your job.

Sam Altman advises students to learn to use artificial intelligence.Joel Saget/Getty Images; Jenny Chang-Rodriguez/BIOpenAI CEO Sam Altman advises students to learn AI to stay relevant in the job market.Altman's advice contrasts with Vinod Khosla's warning that AI could replace many jobs.An Indeed study found that 2,800 work skills are "very unlikely" to be replaced by generative AI.There's been a lot of buzz about artificial intelligence snatching jobs from us poor humans.And if our robot overlords in waiting have been listening, they've heard many a tech leader and thinker repeat the idea that AI won't take your job, but someone who knows how to use it will.That notion got thrust back into the spotlight recently when OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that students worried that AI will sideline them should double down on learning to use the technology — an approach that he said worked for him with computer programming."I'm confident that there will be lots of jobs and also that many of them will look somewhat different than the jobs of today, but we never seem to run out of stuff to do," Altman said in a taped interview with Indeed CEO Chris Hyams released Thursday.Altman's sunny take was at odds with one offered days earlier by Silicon Valley investor Vinod Khosla, who warned that AI would one day be able to take on 80% of the work of 80% of jobs.

 

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