Long story short
People usually associate AI with job cuts, but NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang sees it differently: he believes it will create more hiring. If AI boosts productivity, companies can handle more projects, which naturally leads to bigger teams. For leaders, the challenge is to stop resisting AI and start leveraging it to drive growth.
What happened
According to Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, we are in a temporary transition. While the current job market feels shaky, this won’t last long.
His point is simple: higher productivity tends to lead to more hiring. When AI automates routine operations, from software design to customer support, it boosts a company’s output and profitability.
And what comes with that? More hiring.
NVIDIA itself is the clearest example. Despite Huang’s mandate to automate “every possible task”, the company has grown to 36,000 employees and plans to hire 10,000 more.
So no, AI won’t remove the need for people. That said, we can already see which roles AI replaces more easily. As Huang affirmed, you won’t lose your job to AI, but to someone who knows how to use it better.
Remotivate’s take
At Remotivate, we’ve noticed something interesting: the real obstacle to adopting AI isn’t the tech, but leaders resisting it.
Many managers fear that AI could make some roles unnecessary, so they end up discouraging people from using it.
We think that’s a mistake. A strategic one.
In distributed teams, AI helps everyone stay aligned, especially across time zones, by closing gaps in documentation and speed. For founders scaling from 50 to 500, the shift is simple: stop focusing on which roles AI might replace, and start thinking about what your team could achieve with it.
Huang could be so optimistic because AI development has a deep impact on his company; on the other hand, he’s not the only one thinking that every major tech shift has changed how we work, not erased work altogether, as Microsoft CMO of AI at Work, Jared Spataro, affirms.
In the near future, companies will look for people who can collaborate well and use AI in a practical way. And we’ll surely do so when hiring global top talent.