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With a program that looks at the numbers in the news, in life, and in your jobs, I'm Tim Harford.

Loyal listener Robert Gibbs emailed in to ask about a stat he heard in a talk by Jensen Huang,

the CEO of NVIDIA.

NVIDIA is a U.S. tech firm that's already become the most valuable company on earth

by selling advanced chips to the company's developing generative artificial intelligence.

Huang, its boss, was speaking at a conference in California, where he told the audience,

We know very clearly that the world has severe shortage. its boss was speaking at a conference in California, where he told the audience,

We know very clearly that the world has severe shortage of human laborers, human workers.

By the end of this decade, the world is going to be at least 50 million workers short.

Huang was making the case for the futuristic solution to this problem, humanoid robots. But is the claim

correct? Is the world really going to be 50 million workers short by 2030? Eager to justify

our own jobs in journalism, we asked NVIDIA where Huang got this figure from. They didn't

reply, possibly due to vacancies

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