Jensen Huang says the future workforce will be a mix of ‘humans and digital humans’

in Interview with Qalaa Securities Company Last week, the 62-year-old billionaire co-founder of Nvidia estimated that the potential market for agent AI workers could be in the trillions of dollars, with nurses, accountants, lawyers and digital marketers joining the workforce.

“I wouldn’t be surprised if you license some and hire others, depending on quality and deep experience,” Huang added. “So the future workforce in organizations will be a mix of humans and digital humans.”

These AI workers could also be based on a range of platforms, with the chip head name-checking the likes of OpenAI, Harvey, OpenEvidence, Cursor, Replit and Lovable.

Other AI agents may be local. Nvidia has developed its own system to protect proprietary knowledge and data, Huang said. He added that the company already has many more cybersecurity AI customers than it does people working in cybersecurity.

Later in the conversation, Huang explained how important the onboarding process is at Nvidia, which needs to impart its culture, philosophies and practices to new employees. Digital humans will be no different.

“I told the IT director, and the IT department of our company, that they will become the HR department of agentic AI in the future,” he said. “They will be the HR department for the digital employees of the future. These digital employees will work alongside our biological employees, and this will be what our company will look like in the future.”

Other technology leaders envision a similar scenario of humans and AI employees working together.

At this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Salesforce’s Marc Benioff said he and many of his fellow CEOs would be… The final group of executives to lead an all-human workforce.

“From now on… we will not only manage human workers, but also digital workers,” he said.

Also at the event, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said that by 2026 or 2027, AI systems will be “better than almost all humans at almost everything.”

Of course, such predictions have also generated concern about how humans fit into the new AI-driven job market.

Evidence of this has been mounting Recent college graduates have difficulty finding jobs Because companies are becoming more dependent on artificial intelligence. Amodei even warned against this this year AI could eliminate nearly 50% of all entry-level management jobs.

the The number of AI customers across enterprises has tripled Since the fourth quarter of last year, according to KPMG AI quarterly pulse survey From June.

It also found that 82% of business leaders believe that AI agents will become valuable contributors over the next year, and the same number believe that these agents will completely transform… Commercial landscape In the next two years.

Additionally, 87% of business leaders believe that AI agents will force organizations to redefine performance metrics and upskill their employees in roles that AI can replace.

“It’s not just about adopting technology,” said Todd Loehr, head of ecosystems at KPMG. “This is about a fundamental business transformation that requires reimagining how work gets done and how it is measured.”