AMD’s billionaire CEO says AI is overwhelming right now—but she disagrees with former Google exec who predicts the tech will be a job-killer

Success·Artificial IntelligenceEven AMD’s CEO agrees that AI is overwhelming right now—but she says ‘that’s the point’By Preston ForeBy Preston ForeStaff Writer, EducationPreston ForeStaff Writer, EducationPreston Fore is a reporter at Fortune, covering education and personal finance for the Success team.SEE FULL BIO As AI wipes the job market for Gen Z, AMD CEO Lisa Su insists she’s still hiring at the $300 billion semiconductor company—and believes humanity will not be outpaced by AI.I-HWA CHENG/AFP via Getty ImagesAMD CEO Lisa Su doesn’t believe AI is out to cause massive job losses, but admits anxiety around the nology’s innovation is a natural feeling. “That’s the point,” she said after being pointed out that is driving people up the wall

As fellow leaders Nvidia’s Jensen Huang and OpenAI’s Sam Altman express similar positive attitudes AI’s future, others warn against overhyping a “golden era.” Keeping pace with AI can feel an endless race

Every week brings a new unicorn, a new duct, and a fresh set of CEO phecies how the nology will reshape work

But according to Lisa Su, CEO of the nearly $300 billion semiconductor company AMD, there’s no need to get bogged down—it’s all part of the innovation cess. “I think that’s the point,” Su told Wired when asked AI’s dizzying pace. “When nology is good enough, you don’t have to think it

Today, you still have to think…” The internet ed a similar trajectory

Now, it’s almost second nature and woven seamlessly into everyday life

That’s why the 55-year-old argued that the newest nology—AI—should not be judged by what it is today but by where it’s headed

AMD’s CEO would even ‘bet on humanity being OK’ While some leaders— Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Ford CEO Jim Farley—warn that AI could hollow out Gen Z’s entry-level jobs, Su remains unconvinced. “I don’t believe in these cases where you’re not going to need lots and lots of people,” Su said. “Because in the end, people are the judge of what truth is

We’re still hiring more and more engineers, because they’re the final arbiters of our engineering.” For now, AI mostly s away mundane tasks

It will become “great,” in Su’s view, when it starts cracking real, hard blems—such as meaningful advances in healthcare, not just ductivity tweaks

Will humanity be able to keep up? Su pointed out to Wired that the same fear was expressed during the industrial revolution—and the world managed to adapt. “I don’t know

I would bet on humanity being OK.” Fortune reached out to AMD for . leaders are divided on how AI will impact the workforce—and the world While the pace of AI can feel it’s headed down a doomsday scenario, the s of “The Terminator,” Su isn’t alone in leveling that the world isn’t in peril

In fact, Su’s distant relative—and fellow chips competitor—Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is bullish that humanity will always come up with new ideas and the world will keep turning. “I don’t know why AI companies are trying to scare us

We should advance the nology safely just as we advance cars safely. … But scaring people goes too far,” Huang said to Axios

Moreover, OpenAI Sam Altman expressed last week that being a young person today must feel you’re the “luckiest kid in all of history,” considering the new era that AI will bring to the world

However, this hope for a “golden era” of humanity is more fiction than fact, according to Mo Gawdat, the former chief officer for Google X. mises that AI will create more new jobs is “100% crap,” he said—and CEOs themselves may need to watch their back. “CEOs are celebrating that they can now get rid of people and have ductivity gains and cost reductions because AI can do that job

The one thing they don’t think of is AI will replace them too,” Gawdat said on The Diary of a CEO podcast. “AGI is going to be better at everything than humans, including being a CEO

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