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AMD CEO Lisa Su doesn’t believe AI will cause massive job losses, says: We are still hiring more and more engineers, because…
AMD CEO Lisa Su believes that artificial intelligence (AI) will not lead to massive job cuts. Contrary to predictions by other tech leaders, the CEO of the nearly $300 billion US-based chip company doesn’t think that AI will eat away at Gen Z’s entry-level jobs. In a recent interview with Wired, while responding to the concerns about AI replacing jobs, Su noted, “You can choose two ways to think about it. One is you try to hold back on AI because it could be dangerous, or you try to go as fast as you can, but put the right lens on the information. I’m a big believer in the second camp. I don’t believe in these cases where you’re not going to need lots and lots of people. Because in the end, people are the judges of what truth is. We’re still hiring more and more engineers, because they’re the final arbiters of our engineering.”
What Lisa Su said about the AI revolution
Su mentioned that she believes in AGI but not that AI will surpass human intelligence, and she isn’t concerned about doomsday scenarios. She sees technology’s value as dependent on the people who create and guide it, and thinks AI isn’t “great” yet. For her, AI becomes great when it can solve complicated problems. She higlighted that current AI agents mostly handle mundane tasks.“I think there are two directions AI goes. One is pure productivity, you know, how do I remove some of, let’s call it, the menial work that people do, so that they can work on more interesting things? That’s one aspect of it, and we’re using that. But the other aspect of it is when AI can solve really hard problems. It can take what would’ve taken us 10 years to figure out and do that in six months. I think about a world where it normally takes us three years to design a chip, and what does that look like if I could do that in six months?”she added.Comparing the AI revolution with the Internet revolution, Su noted: “The internet is not a bad comparison, but I think AI is much more than the internet. Because, if you think about it, the internet was a lot about moving traffic. AI is more about something foundational in terms of productivity. Sometimes people compare it to the Industrial Revolution, and that’s not a bad comparison, actually.”She also believes that once humanity figures AI out,“it will be like the internet is to us today, which is you just take it for granted. We shouldn’t evaluate the technology based on this point in time. We should evaluate it on the slope of what we’re going to be capable of doing. We’re going to get these things right. But we may have a few bumps in the road.”Talking about SuperIntelligence, Su said: “I think the idea that AI can make all of us superintelligent is a wonderful vision, and we’re still in the very early innings of how to do that. One of the areas that I’m most personally passionate about is health care, because I have had experience with the health care system, and I think it should be much, much better than it is today. We should be able to cure these diseases. We shouldn’t have to do trial and error like we sometimes do. This is a perfect use case for AI. Being able to stitch all those pieces together to go from drug discovery to therapeutics to inpatient care, all of that is ripe for—let’s call it transformation. I don’t know if you call that “superintelligence.”“I would bet on humanity being OK,”she assured.
A high school in suburban Chicago was awarded a grant to implement AI-powered gun detection technology.
Oak Lawn Community High School District 229 was one of 50 recipients selected nationwide for the Omnilert Secure Schools Grant Program, the school said in a recent announcement.
The district was awarded a three-year license for Omnilert Gun Detect, an “advanced AI-powered gun detection technology” — at no cost.
The AI system identifies firearms “in real-time through existing security camera infrastructure,” the announcement said.
Once a potential threat is identified, the AI system activates a rapid response process by alerting school officials and law enforcement, ultimately ensuring that threats can be addressed “as quickly and effectively as possible,” the announcement said.
The implementation of the AI system aligns with District 229’s security strategy, that includes a combination of physical safety measures, emergency preparedness and mental health resources, the announcement said.
The school said staff training and safety drills will be done to ensure the technology is used effectively and responsibly.
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