Nvidia boss says people will end up working side by side with “digital” people in corporations

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang predicts that artificial intelligence (AI) will not only work alongside humans, but also go through a process of orientation and integration to assimilate into a company's culture, reports Fortune magazine.

In comments made to Citadel Securities, a financial advisory firm that invited him for a public interview last week, Huang estimated that the potential market for the work of so-called autonomous “AI agents” could be worth trillions of dollars as digital nurses, accountants, lawyers and virtual marketers join the force. work.

“It wouldn't surprise me if some of them (not AI agencies) will be licensed and some directly hired, depending on the quality and the level of deep expertise,” said Huang, CEO of the world's most valuable company by market capitalization.

“So the workforce of the future, in the corporate environment, will be a combination of people and digital people,” he pointed out.

Nvidia's boss named one area where his company uses more AI tools than humans

So-called AI “agents” are artificial intelligence systems or programs that can act autonomously or semi-autonomously to achieve specific goals, making decisions based on a set of rules, data or prior learning. Unlike a simple chatbot or passive algorithm, an AI agent is designed to “do things” without being instructed every step of the way.

These AI workers could be developed on a variety of platforms, with Nvidia's director mentioning names like OpenAI, Harvey, OpenEvidence, Cursor, Replit and Lovable.

Other AI agents could be created in-house. Huang stated that Nvidia has developed its own AI agents to protect confidential data and knowledge. He also gave the example of one area where Nvidia ended up having more virtual “employees” than humans: cybersecurity.

“They will be the HR department for the digital employees of the future”

Later in the discussion, Huang emphasized how critical Nvidia's onboarding process is for new hires — a process designed to convey the company's culture, philosophy and practices. And “digital people” will be no exception.

“I told my IT director that in the future, our IT department will become the HR department of autonomous AIs,” he stated. “They will be the HR department for the digital employees of the future. And these digital employees will work side by side with the biological ones, and that will be the shape of our company in the future,” explained the 62-year-old billionaire.

Other Silicon Valley leaders envision a similar scenario, where humans and AI agents will collaborate. At this year's World Economic Forum, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said he and many of his fellow executives will be the last wave of all-human workforce leaders.

“From now on … we're going to be managing not just human employees, but digital employees as well,” Benioff said. Also at Davos, Dario Amodeni, the director of Anthropic, said that by 2026 or 2027 AI systems will be “better than almost all humans in almost all fields”.