PwC chairman argues AI adoption creates jobs rather than causing mass layoffs
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Moz Farooque
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PwC Global Chairman Mohamed Kande challenges the dominant narrative that widespread AI adoption leads to mass layoffs. In a CNBC interview at VivaTech in Paris, Kande argues that businesses implementing AI at scale are often adding workers rather than cutting them, as AI creates new demand in areas like implementation, governance, data management, product development, and client delivery. This contrarian view pushes back against the prevailing discourse across tech, consulting, and white-collar work that AI will primarily displace human workers.
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AI creates new demand around implementation, governance, data, products, and client delivery.
The layoff narrative has effectively dominated the AI debate across tech, consulting, and white-collar work.
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