NVIDIA Corp. (NASDAQ:NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang said engineering careers will become central to the AI era as artificial intelligence transforms industries and accelerates what he described as a new industrial revolution.
Engineering Seen As Key AI Career Path
Huang received IEEE's top award, the Medal of Honor and spoke at the group's ceremony last Friday about what he expects from the AI era.
The 63-year-old described AI as a broad, foundational tool that can both eliminate certain tasks and generate entirely new work.
At the event, Huang framed engineering as a key lever for turning inventions into tools society can actually trust and use, according to a report by Fortune on Tuesday.
"Engineers ultimately are the ones that take an invention and advance it in such a way that it's safe, beneficial, ultimately transformative to society," the Nvidia CEO said.
He added that the responsibility of AI engineers is to guide the technology toward public benefit.
"The engineers in the AI industry must advance AI in service of a better future for all of us," Huang said.
He also said AI will be a net creator of opportunity even as it disrupts existing roles.
"We now recognize this general purpose technology we call intelligence as an opportunity to create new industries, create brand new jobs," Huang said.
The CEO added that the technology won't leave job descriptions untouched.
"But of course, it will shape every job. Some will no longer be necessary. Many new ones will be invented beyond our imagination today," he said.
AI Reshapes Engineering Jobs
Earlier, Reddit Inc (NYSE:RDDT) CEO Steve Huffman said AI-trained graduates had an advantage in the job market and could be prioritized for hiring because they were already fluent in AI-assisted coding.
Uber Technologies Inc. (NYSE:UBER) reported that 95% of its engineers were using AI tools monthly.
CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga called it a "real reset moment for engineering" as AI systems increasingly generated code with limited human input.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei predicted AI could take over most software engineering tasks within months, saying some engineers were already relying on AI to write and refine code instead of doing it manually.
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