Kleinerman: AI will bring incremental productivity boosts, not immediate mass layoffs
Christian Kleinerman · Christian Kleinerman: Do OpenAI and Anthropic Have a Sustaining Moat? Who Wins the AI Wars? | E1063 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · Sep 22, 2023 · at 0:00
Christian Kleinerman, SVP of Product at Snowflake, discusses the near-term workforce impacts of generative AI adoption.
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“I don't think that it's a mass firing happening next week. It's more incremental productivity boosts happening over the next six, 1224 months.”
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