Unlike Amodei and Jassy, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says AI is creating jobs, not cutting them

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s comments on artificial intelligence and employment differ from concerns raised by some technology leaders about AI’s potential impact on white-collar jobs. Unlike Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, Huang has maintained that AI is creating new roles as companies develop and deploy the technology.

Speaking in an interview published by Nvidia, Huang said the company’s software engineers are spending less time writing Python code and more time developing AI agents, focusing on agentic systems, benchmarks and guardrails rather than routine coding tasks. ‘If you ask me, every one of my software engineers prefers to be building agents than to be writing Python code,’ he said.

Huang said the shift is creating new kinds of work rather than simply replacing existing jobs. ‘The amount of work that we have to do to bring AI into the world is really quite incredible. So it’s creating a whole bunch of jobs. And, my software engineers love this,’ he noted.

In a TV interview in May, Huang made a similar point about AI’s impact on employment more broadly. ‘This is the part that people don’t realise about AI. The first thing that AI is doing right now is creating an enormous number of jobs. AI creates jobs. AI is the United States’s best opportunity to re-industrialise ourselves,’ he said at the time.

The Nvidia cofounder has said the company plans to deploy AI agents across different business functions to improve productivity, arguing that engineers are shifting from writing code line by line to designing systems that automate repetitive tasks while requiring creativity and technical expertise.