Tech executives contest forecasts of AI job losses (opens in new tab)

Google and Alphabet senior vice president James Manyika said on Casey Newton's "Platformer" that he would bet against predictions of near-term mass job losses from artificial intelligence, responding to warnings such as Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's view that unemployment could spike because of AI. Jeff Bezos told CNBC at Blue Origin's Florida rocket base that AI should make software engineers more productive, comparing it to receiving a bulldozer after digging with a shovel. Hong Kong Product...