Nvidia’s Jensen Huang clashes with Anthropic CEO over AI Job loss predictions
Jensen Huang dismisses AI job loss fears, sparking pushback from Anthropic defending transparency and safety in AI development.
A fresh dispute has erupted between Nvidia and Anthropic after CEO Dario Amodei warned that AI could eliminate 50% of entry-level white-collar jobs in the next five years, potentially causing a 20% unemployment spike.
Nvidia’s Jensen Huang dismissed the claim, saying at VivaTech in Paris that he ‘pretty much disagreed with almost everything’ Amodei says, accusing him of fearmongering and advocating for a monopoly on AI development.
Huang emphasized the importance of open, transparent development, stating, ‘If you want things to be done safely and responsibly, you do it in the open… Don’t do it in a dark room and tell me it’s safe.’
Anthropic pushed back, saying Amodei supports national AI transparency standards and never claimed only Anthropic can build safe AI.
The clash comes amid growing scrutiny of Anthropic, which faces a lawsuit from Reddit for allegedly scraping content without consent and controversy over a Claude 4 Opus test that simulated blackmail scenarios.
The companies have also clashed over AI export controls to China, with Anthropic urging tighter rules and Nvidia denying reports that its chips were smuggled using extreme methods like fake pregnancies or shipments with live lobsters.
Huang maintains an optimistic outlook, saying AI will create new jobs in fields like prompt engineering. At the same time, Amodei has consistently warned that the economic fallout could be severe, rejecting universal basic income as a long-term solution.
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