Nvidia continues to stress importance of human workers - but for how long?

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  Nvidia exec says compute cost outweighs human workers - for now
  
  


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  Fears over AI taking jobs continue to prevail, especially among younger workers
  
  


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  Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has taken a key role in trying to play down fears
  
  

Despite a barrage of recent reports that the AI workplace revolution is underway, and human workers are doomed, a senior

Nvidia

executive has claimed using technology is still the more costly option - at least for now.

Speaking to


Axios


recently, Bryan Catanzaro, vice president of applied deep learning at Nvidia, noted that, “for my team, the cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees.”

Human vs AI - or both?

Catanzaro should know what he's talking about -

he leads an incredibly senior team at Nvidia

which looks to find, "new ways to use AI to improve projects ranging from language understanding to computer graphics and chip design".

His beliefs also run in time with CEO Jensen Huang, who has understandably looked to allay fears about AI taking people's jobs, despite Nvidia being at the very forefront of the latest developments in the technology.

At the company's recent Nvidia GTC 2026 event,

Huang revealed he actually finds himself "getting busier and busier"

as AI processes speed up workflows across his business.

"A lot of people are saying AI is coming, we're going to run out of jobs - but it’s exactly the opposite," he noted.

The theme was continued at the recent

Adobe

Summit 2026, where Huang spoke more on fears that

artificial intelligence might replace skilled professionals

, noting that AI lets us frame roles differently, replacing human labor in terms of the tasks, but it frees up workers to align outcomes with their true purpose.

Huang also recently told Democratic California Congressman Ro Khanna that he thinks "

the narratives of AI destroying jobs is not going to help America

...First of all, it’s just false. Of course, with every technology, and every single day that goes by, jobs of the past are changed.”

“The purpose of your job and the tasks that you do in your job are related but not the same,” he added. “Using myself as an example, if they were the same, then somebody would observe that what Jensen does really for a living is typing and talking. And typing and talking have both been automated to a superhuman level by AI. And yet I’m busier than ever."