AI CEOs Now Promise Jobs

Leading AI executives and firms have shifted public rhetoric from openly predicting mass obsolescence toward saying AI will create new kinds of work. This is visible in recent statements by Sam Altman, Jensen Huang, and others and in edits to corporate materials that de‑emphasize 'AGI'. — If genuine, the pivot will reshape political debates, regulatory proposals, and labor policy by undercutting a core populist grievance about automation; if purely rhetorical, it signals an industry strategy to avoid tighter regulation and political attacks.