2026-07-31 · BlackNova Productions · 1:28:33
“What really happens is AI is going to be used to eliminate repetitive jobs, jobs which are boring and so forth.”He believes AI will eliminate repetitive jobs rather than replace creative or expert work.
Eric Schmidt on ai and jobs
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2026-07-19 · Zenvora Productions · 26:44Changed view
“instead of AI replacing all of us, AI will be very synergistic with humans because we can define the objective function.”He expects AI to be synergistic with humans rather than replacing them, because humans are end-to-end and AI is not.
2026-07-01 · New SciTech 新科技 · 35:08Changed view
“We have not yet seen mass effect of the white-collar workforce. It's going to happen in the next 5 years”He expects mass effects on the white-collar workforce within five years, and robot-driven job displacement in about ten.
2026-05-25 · Steven Reff · 04:12
“To speak of the future as though it has already been decided is to surrender the one thing that actually matters. You are surrendering your agency.”He rejects the fear that the future is already written and that jobs are simply evaporating, urging graduates to keep their agency and help shape AI.
2026-05-13 · Special Competitive Studies Project · 27:52Changed view
“I think that what will happen is we'll have a shortage of job of people for jobs because the economy will grow so quickly because of the productivity.”He expects the economy to grow so fast from AI productivity that there will be a shortage of workers rather than mass unemployment.
2026-05-13 · Special Competitive Studies Project · 19:46Changed view
“I think that the AI revolution is under hyped, not over hyped. This is my opinion.”He believes the AI revolution is under-hyped rather than over-hyped.
2026-05-11 · FII Institute · 01:59
“It will all change mostly for the better.”He expects AI to change work mostly for the better over a 10 to 15 year generational wave.
2026-04-13 · AI Upload · 07:14
“Those people will become more valuable, not less valuable, because these systems need to be controlled by humans at the moment.”He expects AI to affect jobs, starting with software and customer service, and believes top programmers will become more valuable, not less.
2026-03-24 · Peter H. Diamandis · 08:03
“Those people will become more valuable, not less valuable, because these systems need to be controlled by humans at the moment.”He expects top programmers to become more valuable, not less, because AI systems still need human control.
2026-03-20 · Simon Harrison · 59:09
“I expect 100% employment. Uh but I do also expect it to take the jobs”He expects AI to take jobs but believes the economy will keep employment high.
2026-03-14 · The Builder Weekly · 02:31
“So, 90 gigawatts is 90 nuclear power [music] plants in America. Not happening. We're building zero, right? How are we going to get all that power? This is a major, major national issue.”He sees electricity as the primary limit on AI progress, framing it as a major national issue.
2026-03-10 · FII Institute · 01:17
“It makes no sense to take the smartest people in the world, educate them in the US, and kick them out, right? We want them to keep them here.”He thinks the US should keep highly educated immigrants rather than kick them out.
2026-02-12 · ExpovistaTV · 24:28
“A general rule about automation is that highly um highly repetitive jobs and highly dangerous jobs are automated out first. And I think that's what you'll see.”He expects highly repetitive and highly dangerous jobs, such as customer service, to be automated first.
2026-01-28 · Forbes · 06:41Changed view
“There's beginning to be evidence of real job loss in two categories. One is in customer service, which is highly automated now, and the other one is in low-end or entry- level software programming, my field.”He expects AI-driven job losses to continue and spread beyond customer service and entry-level programming.
2026-01-08 · The Diary Of A CEO Clips · 10:54
“my own view is that there will be a lot of job dislocation but there will be a lot more jobs not fewer jobs”He expects significant job dislocation but more jobs overall rather than fewer.
2026-01-08 · The Diary Of A CEO Clips · 16:17
“I completely think this is false. I think none of what I just told you is false. But all of these UBI ideas come from this notion that humans don't behave the way we actually do.”He rejects the tech industry vision of abundance and universal basic income.
2025-12-02 · Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School · 1:16:40
“Human dignity involves purpose. And an awful lot of jobs provide purpose to an awful lot of people. And the loss of those jobs is a major crisis, not financially, but emotionally, in terms of their meaning.”He believes job losses to AI are a crisis of human dignity and purpose, not just finance, and that society must address it.
2025-11-18 · USC · 03:39
“Teachers are not going away. Universities are not going away. Jobs are not going away. Right? All those predictions are all ill informed.”He rejects predictions that teachers, universities and jobs will disappear because of AI.
2025-11-07 · Peter H. Diamandis · 23:55
“the win will be teameming between a human and their judgment and a supercomput and what it can think”He believes the future will be human-computer interaction, with the win coming from teaming human judgment with a supercomputer.
2025-11-05 · Catalaxis · 04:43
“instead of AI replacing all of us, AI will be very synergistic with humans because we can define the objective function.”He believes AI will be synergistic with humans rather than replacing them, because humans are end-to-end and AI is not.
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