Sam Altman is “delighted to be wrong” about AI destroying jobs

Unlike some of his industry peers, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has been surprisingly skeptical of the notion that AI is displacing workers. In an interview a few months ago, he argued that AI was a convenient scapegoat for some companies, echoing what some economists and experts have expressed about the narrative that AI is driving layoffs across corporate America.  “I don’t know what the exact percentage is, but there’s some AI washing where people are blaming AI for layoffs that they would o...