AI will create more jobs than it destroys

Everybody wants to talk about job loss, but really what you want to look at is task loss. The job persists longer than the individual tasks. Unverified source (2026)

Artificial intelligence will create more jobs than it cuts. Every technology has always created new jobs. We've added 1.2 million recently. Unverified source (2026)

AI is everywhere except in the incoming macroeconomic data. Today, you don't see AI in the employment data, productivity data, or inflation data. [...] After three years with ChatGPT and still no signs of AI in the incoming data, it looks like AI wil... more Verified source (2026)

It will destroy humanities jobs. You went to an elite school, and you studied philosophy—I'll use myself as an example—hopefully, you have some other skill, that one is going to be hard to market. [...] There will be more than enough jobs for the cit... more Unverified source (2026)

We invented this entire class of thing called knowledge work. I think in the context of AI, that same thing is going to happen. [...] People need to say, Oh, I picked up this AI skill, and now I'm a better provider of some product or service in the r... more Unverified source (2026)

I would argue that those 50,000 job losses are not driven by AI, but are just driven by the general uncertainty in the market. It's too early to link those to AI. [...] 2026 is the year of the great adaptation. [...] I see AI as a big opportunity for... more Unverified source (2026)

I'm not in the job apocalypse camp. Technology has been disrupting jobs, changing the way people work, destroying jobs, and forcing us as a vibrant economy to create new jobs for decades. It's no different this time. Verified source (2026)

No technology ever leads to lost jobs. It creates new jobs, but of a different kind. Unverified source (2026)

[AI] is going to create many jobs and we're not prepared as a society to fulfill those jobs. And to me, this is a crisis. [...] AI is going to create a lot of skilled jobs needs and the biggest issue confronting our country today and other countries ... more Unverified source (2026)

AI will usher in new tasks and occupations, many of which are impossible for us to conceive of today. [...] Job displacement may precede job creation such that the unemployment rate may rise and participation in the labor force may decline. [...] AI ... more Verified source (2026)

Until we get super AGI, humans are valuable. They are going to become more and more valuable, because they will be the long pole in the tent to progress. Let's say everything in our world was automated except for plumbers. You'd basically have a thou... more Unverified source (2026)

I'm an AI optimist. I think it's going to create more jobs than it destroys. Unverified source (2026)

I expect we will grow from our current engineering phase even into next year, because it allows us to do more. AI is making engineers more productive by eliminating tedious tasks and enabling them to focus on more impactful work. Rather than replacin... more Verified source (2025)

Some people will lose jobs. But many new jobs will be created. [...] There will be more jobs. Unverified source (2025)

They were the original white collar displacements. New companies with new jobs will come from AI and increase TOTAL employment. Unverified source (2025)

So there’s no question there’s job losses, but for every job loss, there’s probably more than one job created. Unverified source (2025)

This whole fear that technology will take away jobs is not right. It will create a different kind of job. Unverified source (2024)

Will we have fewer people because of the rise of these traditional GenAI technologies? Our belief is not so, and we will have more people. Unverified source (2024)

I think the argument that there will be net fewer jobs at the end of this current technological revolution is not supported by historical precedent. Unverified source (2024)

I firmly believe AI will create more jobs than it destroys. People are usually very scared when imagining entirely new jobs. Unverified source (2024)

you're going to get more work, which means you're going to need more people. [...] I fundamentally believe we'll get more jobs. Unverified source (2023)

Based on these figures, we estimate that by 2025, 85 million jobs may be displaced [...] while 97 million new roles may emerge [...]. Unverified source (2020)

The data says that we created way more jobs than were eliminated [...] AI’s going to change all of our jobs — mostly in a positive way. Unverified source (2018)

Our analysis suggests the same will be true of AI [...] While some jobs may be displaced, many more are likely to be created Unverified source (2018)

It will instead likely create more new jobs than it destroys and will create occupations that didn’t exist before. Unverified source (2018)

automation, including this AI, will create more jobs than it destroys. It will take a lot of jobs away. [...] So there will be jobs. Unverified source (2018)

Gartner Says By 2020, Artificial Intelligence Will Create More Jobs Than It Eliminates Unverified source (2017)

I think it's somewhat unlikely that more jobs will be destroyed than created for the first time. Unverified source (2016)

The use of AI systems will supplement human systems and not replace them [...] generating more jobs in the future. Unverified source (2014)

I don’t believe it will achieve a higher displacement over creation ratio by 2025. [...] have surprisingly led to more job creation [...]. Unverified source (2014)

My position is basically historical. [...] technological unemployment has never been a long-term reality. [...] unlikely that new productivity technologies will destroy more jobs than they create. Unverified source (2014)

They will displace many jobs but the rate of job creation will outpace this. Why is uncertain—it always has [...]. Unverified source (2014)

Some classes of jobs will be handed over to the ‘immigrants’ of AI and Robotics, but more will have been generated. Unverified source (2014)

Historically, technology has created more jobs than it destroys and there is no reason to think otherwise in this case. Unverified source (2014)

It’s time to take a deep breath and stop panicking [...] for jobs. No, AI won’t destroy more jobs than it creates. Unverified source

People have the wrong intuition when they say that if AI can do my job for ten dollars an hour, then my wage falls to ten dollars and my life is terrible. A world where AI can do research or teaching at that cost is a world where AI is extremely capa... more Unverified source (2026)

The evidence on how AI is affecting the labor market today is inconclusive, and claims about harmful impacts on particular groups of workers are premature. [...] All the important questions about AI's effects on the labor market are still unanswered.... more Unverified source (2026)

My concern is not about us running out of jobs per se. In fact, we're running out of workers. The concern is about devaluation of expertise. [...] AI will mostly affect specific occupations and roles and tasks rather than entire industries. We don't ... more Unverified source (2026)

We could replace a great deal of radiologists with AI at this moment, if we are ready to do the regulatory challenge. Unverified source (2026)

Threats to the labor market due to artificial intelligence are of a much bigger magnitude [...] A recession could go through a transition of very large job losses much bigger than what was seen after the great financial crisis. Unverified source (2026)

The only way they can justify the amount of money that's been invested into this AI industry is if they race to replace economic labor in the economy. [...] They're not racing to augment and support human workers. They're racing to replace human work... more Unverified source (2026)

We have, over the next 12 to 15 years, 1.2 billion young people in the emerging markets who will become eligible for a job in the sense they will come to the age of 18. And yet those very same economies are currently projected to produce around 400 m... more Unverified source (2026)

We're investing in AI-native tooling so individuals at Meta can get more done. We're elevating individual contributors and flattening teams. We're starting to see projects that used to require big teams now being accomplished by a single very talente... more Unverified source (2026)

AI and robots will replace all jobs. Working will be optional, like growing your own vegetables, instead of buying them from the store. Unverified source (2026)

As AI takes over their current work, most workers will probably get poorer or have to take additional jobs to maintain their current pay. [...] AI will make most of us poorer and a few fabulously wealthy — unless its productivity gains are allocated ... more Unverified source (2026)

Most of those tasks will be fully automated by an AI within the next 12 to 18 months. [...] We're going to have a human-level performance on most, if not all, professional tasks. Unverified source (2026)

The next few years are going to be a painful adjustment. [...] If it's hard in many of our current jobs to outwork a GPU, then that changes. [...] If there was an easy consensus answer, we'd have done it by now, so I don't think anyone knows what to ... more Unverified source (2026)

We're already seeing that the intelligence tools we're creating and using, paired with smaller and flatter teams, are enabling a new way of working which fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company. [...] I think most companies are... more Unverified source (2026)

New technologies often bring labor market shocks, and in the past humans have always recovered from them, but I am concerned that this is because these previous shocks affected only a small fraction of the full possible range of human abilities, leav... more Unverified source (2026)

I think young people coming out of university today [are experiencing] 9% unemployment. I think it could easily go into the mid-30s in the next couple of years. What's happening now, for the non-differentiating roles, [is] so much of the work is goin... more Unverified source (2026)

AI is like a tsunami hitting the labor market. Tasks that are eliminated are usually what entry-level jobs present, so young people searching for jobs find it harder to get to a good placement. [...] The middle class, inevitably, is going to be affec... more Unverified source (2026)

Of all the things humans have ever created, AI will change society the most. AI capabilities will allow us to make far more goods and services with less labor. We're already starting to see the impact of AI on the job market, and I think this impact ... more Unverified source (2026)

It will eliminate jobs. People should stop sticking their heads in the sand. For the most part, AI is going to do great stuff for mankind. Maybe one day we'll be working less hard but having wonderful lives. [...] We should look at how we phase it in... more Unverified source (2025)

My argument is that we currently have the wrong direction for AI. We're using it too much for automation and not enough for providing expertise and information to workers. Unverified source (2025)

I think it will destroy way, way more jobs than it creates [...]. Because AI is a thousand times smarter than the smartest doctor, right? Unverified source (2025)

My belief is it is 100% crap, [...] The one thing they don’t think of is AI will replace them too, Unverified source (2025)

I don't believe there'll be nearly as many new jobs created as it destroys, as it replaces. Unverified source (2025)

As AI becomes more established [...] it could end up destroying more jobs than it creates. [...] This is a concern for us all. Unverified source (2024)

During that time span there is likely to be more technological displaced workers than there are jobs created from the integration of artificial intelligence. Unverified source (2019)

The other problem is that the new jobs that are created will be in smaller numbers than the jobs that are being lost. Unverified source (2019)

it seems very unlikely that there will be enough of these new positions to absorb all the workers displaced from more predictable work [...] Unverified source (2015)

[...] machine agents is precisely that they will replace more (lower-paid) humans than the number of (more highly-paid) humans needed to build and maintain the machines. Unverified source (2014)

This is [...] happening [...]. In general, the jobs loss will not likely be matched by the jobs created, thus creating a net loss of jobs overall. Unverified source (2014)

We have [...] witnessed the effects [...] on the labor force. Similarly—[...] artificial intelligence (AI) applications [...] will have displaced more jobs than they have created by 2025. Unverified source (2014)

in terms of the direct job destruction, creation, and disruption [...] will likely be negative in terms of numbers of jobs. Unverified source (2014)

AI will not create enough jobs to take over the jobs that may be displaced. Unverified source