From Ford CEO Jim Farley to Anthropic’s Dario Amodei , a growing number of CEOs are ringing the alarm bells that artificial intelligence could threaten millions of jobs around the world. But one CEO says too many of his peers are sugarcoating the truth.
“I feel a lot of my tech bros are being slightly not to the point on this topic,” Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski told Bloomberg on Thursday.
“I think there is a massive shift coming to knowledge work. And it’s not just in banking, it’s in society at large.”
While some executives have tried to calm fears by saying AI will create new jobs , the 44-year-old buy now, pay later billionaire argues that optimism can be misleading—especially in the near term. He singled out that in Brussels, thousands of people still work as