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SYDNEY, May 26 (Reuters) - OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on Tuesday the rapid development ‌and adoption of AI would not lead to a global "jobs apocalypse" and the technology had not claimed as many white-collar jobs as he had feared.

Speaking virtually at a Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) conference in Sydney, Altman said he was initially concerned about the impact AI would have on global employment ​levels.
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He said he and his executives had been "roughly right" on the technological predictions made by OpenAI when it launched ​ChatGPT in 2022. But he said they were "pretty wrong" on the social and economic implications.

"I'm delighted to ⁠be wrong about this, I thought there would have been more impact on entry-level white-collar jobs being eliminated by now than ​has actually happened," Altman told CBA Chief Executive Matt Comyn in an interview.
"I now think I understand more about why it hasn't, ​and I'm obviously grateful but that is an area where my intuitions were just off.

"People are like 'oh you could have saved the world a lot of fear mongering and a lot of doom and gloom' but at the time I was like 'I see this is a real risk we should probably ​talk about it' and it still may."
Altman did not cite any jobs numbers on Tuesday but has previously talked about potential ​industry-wide job cuts due to AI's advancement.

A growing number of global companies, including HSBC (HSBA.L), opens new tab, Amazon (AMZN.O), opens new tab, Standard Chartered (STAN.L), opens new tab and CBA (CBA.AX), opens new tab have announced some jobs within their ‌companies were ⁠being replaced by AI.

OpenAI is preparing to confidentially file for a U.S. initial public offering in the coming weeks, Reuters reported last week, citing a source familiar with the matter. The company could be aiming for a $1 trillion valuation and raising at least $60 billion, Reuters reported in October.

'HUMAN PART' OF EMPLOYMENT IRREPLACEABLE
Altman said he had realised that even though AI was taking on an increasingly active role ​in many industries and jobs, there ​was still a 'human part' ⁠of employment that could not be replaced.
He said he had been using AI to respond to Slack and email messages but had reverted to answering some himself.

"I had it reply to messages, saying 'this ​is Sam's AI' and it was an amazing example to me of we really do care ​about people," he ⁠said.
"We really do care about our interactions with people and this thing, which is a huge amount of my time, is not something that I can imagine myself outsourcing to an AI anytime soon."

That realisation, he said, had made him believe the human interaction required in ⁠many jobs ​would not be replaced by AI.

"It really, in both positive and negative ways, ​updated me to thinking that the jobs picture is likely to be very different than we thought," he said.
"I don't think we're going to have the kind ​of jobs apocalypse that some of the companies in our space advocate or talk about."

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/openais-altman-says-ai-unlikely-lead-jobs-apocalypse-2026-05-26/

Money is not everything...

I won't let this poorly promoted AI article tell me otherwise.

Now that's the real shi hitting the fans!

Jojo1111:
Being 31 years old does not prevent you from gaining admission to study abroad, whether in Poland or Canada. Universities in both countries admit mature students regularly. What matters is not your age, but your academic and application profile.
Here’s how it breaks down:
1. Admission Reality (Age Factor)
There is no official age limit for most universities.
Many people apply in their late 20s, 30s, even 40s.
Schools actually value maturity, clarity of purpose, and work experience.
2. What You Must Have
To be competitive, you need:
Academic Qualifications
For undergraduate: WAEC/NECO (with good grades)
For postgraduate: Bachelor’s degree (minimum 2:2 or better depending on school)
English Proficiency
Exams like IELTS or TOEFL (especially for Canada; Poland sometimes waives it if prior education was in English)
Supporting Documents
Statement of Purpose (very important at your age)
CV (especially if you’ve worked before)
Recommendation letters
3. Special Considerations at Age 31
This is where you must be strategic:
a. Study Gap Explanation
If you’ve been out of school for years, you must clearly explain what you’ve been doing (job, business, training, etc.)
b. Program Choice
Choose something that aligns with your background or experience
(random career switches can raise red flags, especially for Canada visa).

This is the problem with using AI to answer questions.

Ah Nigeria!

Abundance of bright minds, at the same time...a heaven for highly intelligent stupeed people.

Usual sound!

Usual lyrics!

Viralkid:
I pray the marriage don't end this way.

You saw the future bro.

The Ogbebors.

True hustlers!

She must be a northerner.

I like her accent though!

What's the big deal about being married?

Been married for almost a decade and I don't really see what the big deal is about it.

It amazes me when people assume getting married is some sort of achievement or some superior social status.

If being single makes you happy, be damn single.

If living together without any sort of commitment is what you guys want and agree to do, then do the damn thing!

Just do whatever makes you happy!

Are they truly believers or just following a trend, or trying to farm engagements?

Matthew 7:22–24

ESV

22 On that day tmany will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’

23 And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’

Lanruze:
No Bank MD or Even Civil Servant currently earns so much currently.

That is equivalent of almost N85m monthly.

Wow.... There is good returns in SM streaming.

I know someone was bring Bank into this beer parlour gist..

Spent over 5 minutes preparing to take a penalty.



Agba format!

fireboyHtml:
Old habits die hard.. on thing I know is if you want to lock a woman down 1. Be her Best Friend 2. Be her Number One Cheerleader 3. Be her Best Advicer.4. Take her on dates once a month 5. Be the best in the other room.

You can do all that, and she'll ditch you for being too perfect for her.

Bendeco02:
Which Yahoo guy get money pass peller?

Howmany Yahoo guys get 100M?

The problem is not about money.

They girl left her before because of his childish behaviour.

If anything should make her leave again, that's not wealth.

You're kidding right?

ruggedtimi:
Which kind wahala be this.

This one Na member.

over 2.5 investor.

Get money finish, con dey behave like corner Bam!

Zero OT!

Baby content creator.

Spent 4 minutes talking.

Can't wait.


Next!

Zero values

Weak institutions

Anything can fly!

This one Na "Legend of the Seeker..."

Dotherightthing:
Sorry!

But why are all these guys obsessed with Yoruba women these days

Why can't they justn stick with their women

Yoruba men marry from other tribes too.

This is a quite an unintelligible thing to say this early morning.

Dear Seun,

There's need to reconsider the placement of your ads.

Putting them below every topic is an eyesore.

Please do something about this update, it's totally irritating.

Thank you.

Buhari failed as a president!

We all agree on that...

But his greatest failure was not regulating social media.

Dead party!

PDP has been reduced to an annex of APC.

More like a satellite campus.

"The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood, he was one of them".

Angelfrost:
Abeg o... Nobody useless pass Tottenham at this point.

Worst case scenario, these cl0wns go play Europa or Conference league next season.

Spurs first game next season fit be against Leicester or Wigan.

Leicester is getting relegated.

LeeSmart:
What if Arsenal and man city lose all their remaining games and man united won all?
It's both theoretically and mathematically possible. Make believe my brother💪

In that same Mathematics, there's something called probability!

Bottom belle super star!

Happy Birthday.

We're pampering children into stupidity" - Dr. Charles Akpoki

Nigerian Bottling Company, UK branch.

Whatever happened to the Niger Delta resource control struggle...