Dan Shapero on AI will create more jobs than it destro…

Dan Shapero

Chief Operating Officer at LinkedIn

While there is evidence that AI is impacting jobs in small pockets, it’s also creating demand at scale – including more than 600,000 new, AI-enabled data centre jobs and 1.3 million new roles like AI Engineers, Forward-Deployed Engineers and Data Annotators.

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AI will create more jobs than it destroys

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AI Verified Quote says AI is creating jobs at scale, including 1.3 million new roles and 600,000+ data-center jobs; directly on the jobs-created side of the statement. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2mo ago

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AI Verified The quote says AI is creating 1.3 million new roles and more than 600,000 new AI-enabled data-center jobs; that clearly supports 'for'. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2mo ago

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AI Verified Jan. 15, 2026 WEF article quotes Dan Shapero saying AI is 'creating 1.3 million new roles' and 'more than 600,000 new, AI-enabled data centre jobs'; verbatim match. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2mo ago

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AI will create a permanent underclass

This mix of uneven hiring and AI-driven job creation marks the emergence of the new-collar era, a workforce that blends knowledge work, advanced technical skills and distinctly human strengths.

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