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Marketplace All-in-One

So maybe no AI-induced job apocalypse?

Marketplace All-in-One

Marketplace

Business, News

4.51.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2026

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

At a recent conference, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman toned down his talk of mass worker displacement caused by AI. He said he thought AI would have had more of an impact on the elimination of white-collar jobs by now, adding that he’s “delighted to be wrong about this” and that there’s a “human part” of work that can’t be replaced. Also on the show: a preview of a Q1 GDP revision and the astronomical costs to attend this year's World Cup.

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0:00.0

Actually, never mind about artificial intelligence, killing a lot of jobs.

0:05.7

Says a guy running an AI company.

0:08.1

For Marketplace, I'm Novosafo. Good morning.

0:10.7

Open AI CEO Sam Altman is toning down his talk of a jobs apocalypse caused by the adoption of artificial intelligence tools.

0:18.4

He spoke at a conference in Australia.

0:20.2

Marketplaceplaces Nancy Marshall

0:21.2

Genser has more. Sam Altman told the conference he thought AI would have had more of an impact on

0:26.5

the elimination of entry-level white-collar jobs by now. He said his intuitions were just off,

0:32.7

and he's, quote, delighted to be wrong about this. Altman says there's a human part of work that can't be replaced,

0:39.4

and he found that out himself when he started using AI to respond to emails and Slack messages,

0:44.9

but went back to answering some messages himself. Altman concluded that AI won't cause a job's

0:51.3

apocalypse. It is expected to have an impact, though. Goldman Sachs estimates

0:56.1

that AI will displace 6 to 7 percent of jobs over a decade. I'm Nancy Marshall Genser for Marketplace.

1:04.0

The U.S. bombed sites in Iran last night, and oil prices are doing the expected this morning.

1:10.1

This week, we get a revised reading for first

1:11.9

quarter gross domestic product. The preliminary read was plus 2%. Marketplace is Stephanie Hughes

1:17.9

has more on what an update will tell us about consumer spending and business investment.

1:23.3

There was some weather in a lot of the U.S. this winter, and Bank of America economist Stephen

1:28.7

Juno predicts that'll drag down GDP growth.

1:32.4

We had snow where you don't typically have snow, cold weather where you don't typically

1:35.9

have cold weather, so that led to airport closures or at least cancellations, right?

1:40.6

People couldn't travel to weekend getaways, far from that snow, or get out to watch basketball games or concerts.

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