The president of Cisco rejects the doomsday warnings from some tech leaders that artificial intelligence will make entry-level jobs vanish.

“I just refuse to believe that humans are going to be obsolete. It just seems like it’s an absurd concept,” Jeetu Patel, who’s also the chief product officer at AI infrastructure company Cisco, told CNN.

While Patel acknowledged there will be “growing pains where people will get disrupted,” he strongly pushed back on Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s comments saying AI will spike unemployment to as high as 20% and eliminate half of all white-collar entry level jobs.

He’s one of several tech leaders that have pushed back on Amodei’s narrative; others have said AI is likely to change jobs by requiring workers to adopt new skills rather than wiping ou

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