Mr. Aravind Srinivas, Managing Director of Perplexity AI, said that job losses due to artificial intelligence (AI) are not a cause for concern, but may even open up new opportunities for workers in the future.
Speaking in an episode of the All-In podcast filmed at NVIDIA GTC (annual technology conference organized by NVIDIA), Mr. Srinivas emphasized that many people are actually not satisfied with their current jobs.
According to him, the emergence of AI brings a rare opportunity to learn new technology and build its own path.
Most people don't like their jobs. When they have new tools, they can learn how to use them to start from a small business," Mr. Aravind Srinivas said and said that even when facing temporary job losses, the long-term future is still considered more positive.
According to this CEO's point of view, when AI takes on repetitive tasks, people will have more time and resources to focus on creative or higher value activities.
Affected people can choose to start a business or participate in new businesses with the role of leveraging AI.
Reality shows that this trend has begun to appear. Many individuals are using AI to create secondary income, from writing books, designing presentations, to providing translation services or producing digital content.
Mr. Srinivas, who used to work at Google and OpenAI before co-founding Perplexity in 2022, always maintains the view that AI is a tool to empower individuals, rather than just a threat to jobs.
However, the wave of AI-related layoffs is still taking place in many large corporations. Meta and Google have cut thousands of personnel in recent times.
Recently, Jack Dorsey, CEO of Block (a US financial technology company), also said that the company has cut up to 40% of its personnel due to AI changing the way businesses operate.
According to Alliance for Safe AI (Alianza for Safe Artificial Intelligence, a non-profit organization based in the US), as of February 2025, more than 101,000 workers in the US have lost their jobs due to the impact of AI.
This figure reflects the increasingly clear impact of technology on the labor market.
However, not everyone agrees with the perception that AI is replacing jobs on a large scale.
A report by Oxford Economics (an independent economic research and consulting firm based in the UK) suggests that many businesses have not actually replaced personnel with AI on a large scale, but sometimes use this reason to streamline the apparatus.
In that context, debate about the impact of AI on employment continues. However, the Perplexity CEO's point of view shows a different perspective when, instead of just worrying, workers can actively adapt and take advantage of AI as a tool to create new opportunities for themselves.
