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OpenAI's Sam Altman says artificial intelligence unlikely to lead to 'jobs apocalypse'

Bobins Vayalil Abraham

26 May 2026, 04:06 PM IST

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman

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OpenAI's Sam Altman says artificial intelligence unlikely to lead to 'jobs apocalypse'

Bobins Vayalil Abraham

26 May 2026, 04:06 PM IST

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman

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Amid layoffs at some of the world's biggest companies and growing fears of further job losses due to the adoption of artificial intelligence, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has said that the technology would not lead to a global "jobs apocalypse".

Speaking virtually at a Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) conference in Sydney on Tuesday, Altman said he was initially concerned about the impact AI would have on global employment levels.

Wrong about AI's social, economic implications

He said he and his executives had been "roughly right" on the technological predictions made by

when it launched ChatGPT in 2022. But he said they were "pretty wrong" on the social and economic implications.

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"I'm delighted to be wrong about this, I thought there would have been more impact on entry-level white-collar jobs being eliminated by now than has actually happened," Altman told CBA Chief Executive Matt Comyn.

"I now think I understand more about why it hasn't, and I'm obviously grateful but that is an area where my intuitions were just off.

"People are like 'oh you could have saved the world a lot of fear mongering and a lot of doom and gloom' but at the time I was like 'I see this is a real risk we should probably talk about it' and it still may."

Altman said he had realised that even though AI was taking on an increasingly active role in many industries and jobs, there was still a 'human part' of employment that could not be replaced.

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How Altman is using AI

He said he had been using AI to respond to Slack and email messages but had reverted to answering some himself.

"I had it reply t

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