Musk and Altman’s AI rivalry reaches boiling point as IPO race heats up

Needed, pls recommendAs SpaceX and OpenAI race toward IPOs, a tiny circle of tech leaders tightens its grip on AI’s future Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m your host, Blake Montgomery, US tech editor at the Guardian. Let’s recap a whirlwind five days that may determine the future of AI. SpaceX reveals plan for $1.75tn stock market debut that could make Musk a trillionaire Mars colony and Grok warnings: five strange details in SpaceX’s pitch to investors The main takeaways from Elon Musk’s...

By Blake Montgomery

Less than 10% of Chinese public worried about AI destroying jobs: survey

China is better positioned than many other nations to lead in artificial intelligence due to the public’s “strikingly positive” attitude towards the technology, according to a new survey by University College London. Less than 10 per cent of respondents in China worried that AI would make it harder to find a job and about one-third believed the technology would create more high-skilled work, the survey found. A whopping 96 per cent of Chinese people surveyed said they used AI at work every we...

By Ralph Jennings

Sam Altman says he's 'delighted to be wrong' about AI destroying white-collar jobs

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, has previously said AI would wipe out "entire classes" of jobs. This week, he said he had been "pretty wrong" about some of his AI predictions about the economy. Some companies have cited AI during layoffs, but a jobs apocalypse has not happened. The AI jobs apocalypse has not yet come to pass — and Sam Altman says he's happy to be wrong about that. The OpenAI boss told a tech conference this week t...

The ‘negative’ question OpenAI’s Sam Altman gets most from CEOs - Forbes Australia

The ‘negative’ question OpenAI’s Sam Altman gets most from CEOs  Forbes Australia

Sam Altman is delighted to be wrong about AI layoffs

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admitted he was wrong to predict a significant elimination of entry-level white-collar jobs due to AI. He now believes human interaction remains crucial in many professions, suggesting the employment impact will be less severe than initially feared. Altman stated he doesn't foresee a widespread "jobs apocalypse" driven by AI.

By TOI TECH DESK

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says AI unlikely to lead to 'jobs apocalypse'

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman claims the rapid development of AI would not lead to a global “jobs apocalypse”.

OpenAI’s Sam Altman says AI unlikely to lead to ‘jobs apocalypse’ - The Straits Times

OpenAI’s Sam Altman says AI unlikely to lead to ‘jobs apocalypse’  The Straits Times

OpenAI’s Altman says AI unlikely to lead to ‘jobs apocalypse’

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman did not cite any jobs numbers but has previously talked about potential industry-wide job cuts due to the advancement of artificial intelligence

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First Andreessen, Now Goldman CEO Shuts Down AI Job-Apocalypse Doomerism Narrative

First Andreessen, Now Goldman CEO Shuts Down AI Job-Apocalypse Doomerism Narrative Amid the flood of AI doomerism, from Pope Leo XIV's Monday warning that AI and the digital transformation of the economy could unleash "new forms of slavery" and mass job losses, to Bernie Sanders and unhinged socialists calling for a halt to data centers buildouts, a move that would conveniently cede compute power to communists in Beijing, a growing and emerging chorus of dystopian futurists is n...

By Tyler Durden