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Good morning. Everyone’s talking about Jensen Huang’s latest comments on whether AI will wipe out the workforce. Such predictions are “hurtful,” the Nvidia chief said in an interview published Friday, and made by CEOs with “a God complex.” He added: “Before you know it, you know everything.” Huang’s remarks, which included estimates about how many jobs AI has created, were seemingly meant to push back on critical comments made by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei last year predicting an AI-driven bloodbath for white-collar jobs.Make no mistake: Amid this AI arms race, the battle for mindshare among AI CEOs is as interesting as the battle for actual business. OpenAI chief Sam Altman adopted a bluntly patriotic stance. Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis pushed back on widespread AI-driven job loss. Anthropic’s Amodei predicted the loss of half of entry-level white-collar jobs within five years; Microsoft’s Mustafa Suleyman gave it 18 months. And xAI’s Elon Musk, ever subtle, predicted the end of all human jobs and called for “universal high income.” My 2c? If any of them are right, it’ll be by sheer luck. But if we must “ground ourselves to talking about the facts,” per Huang, there’s one thing that’s certain: All have a