AI won’t steal your job: Andrew Ng interview | The Economist
The Economist · Published on October 14, 2026
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Will AI put millions of people out of work? Andrew Ng, CEO and founder of LearnVector, argues the fears are overblown. He tells Alex Hern, The Economist’s AI writer, that AI automates only part of most jobs, that its progress will be slowed by physical bottlenecks like building data centres and that the real problem for young workers is universities are too slow to teach the skills employers want now. #ai #jobs #datacentres #artificialintelligence #technology 00:00 - Why there will be no AI jobs apocalypse 01:03 - How AI is reshaping software engineering 02:02 - Is there a limit to AI progress? 04:54 - Are universities failing young workers? Watch the full show: http://bit.ly/4ety1EO Sign up to the Insider newsletter: https://econ.st/4nOyzIb Subscribe to The Economist: https://www.economist.com/subscribe Download our app: https://www.economist.com/get-the-app Follow The Economist on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theeconomist/ Follow The Economist on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheEconomist Follow The Economist on X: https://x.com/TheEconomist
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