AI Won’t Eliminate Jobs, It Will Create More

8 Aug 2026 · 1 min

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This content was created by Eric Siu. This content was uploaded by Eric Siu. This is a YouTube video titled "AI Won’t Eliminate Jobs, It Will Create More" (uploaded 2026-08-08). The excerpt is an English-speaking monologue in which a speaker argues against the narrative that AI will cause mass job loss, citing historical examples (industrialization, the rise of new finance roles, and radiology) to claim technology typically creates net new jobs. The speaker emphasizes that the critical issue over the next 2–3 years is how people and organizations harness AI's capabilities.

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AI is going to take jobs. AI is taking jobs. 50% of jobs are going to be gone. And there's this whole job loss narrative. The reality is we're going to be doing a lot more because if you look at the number of jobs that we have today, 60% are net new since World War II. Technology has always enabled more and more. So when you look at the industrial age, sure, we lost 8 million farmer jobs. What ended up happening? Almost 50 million new jobs came out from that. The spreadsheet came out, oh my God, everyone's going to lose their jobs. That didn't happen. What ended up happening was more jobs ended up forming from that in terms of finance jobs. And then if you also look at radiologists, for example, AI can scan, can do all the medical scans now. We don't need radiologists anymore. Guess what? You have more radiologists than ever. I think we're going to have net new job creation. But what's more important in these next 2, 3 years or so is how do you actually harness the power of this stuff?