在伦敦科技周上，人工智能（AI）领域的专家们就AI对就业市场的影响展开了激烈的讨论。商业内幕（BI）采访了四位创始人，了解他们如何使用这项技术以及他们认为它将如何影响就业。所有受访者都表示，AI提高了他们的生产力，但同时也表达了担忧。他们预计会发生某种形式的颠覆，但悲观程度各不相同。讨论的核心在于AI能否取代工作岗位，以及它将如何改变未来的工作方式。

💡CoTalent AI的创始人Isa Mutlib认为，AI可以加速信息处理，例如编码和内容生成，为公司节省大量时间，从而更快地向客户交付产品。他预计AI会带来短期内的就业岗位流失，但长期来看，AI将创造新的机会，需要重新思考技能和工作方式。

🤖Quench AI的创始人Husayn Kassai认为，AI威胁到编程、客户服务和法律等领域的入门级工作，因为AI可以完成初级员工过去所做的工作。他指出，这使得职业生涯的早期发展更加困难，并加速了自动化趋势，导致全球范围内出现“就业不足和低工资就业”的现象。他认为，熟练使用AI的人将更具优势。

⚙️Lumico的联合创始人Steven Kennington表示，AI擅长解决技术和数学问题。他担心，用户使用AI生成代码而不理解代码的情况可能导致技能差距。他认为，那些依赖AI走捷径而不培养适当技能的人最终会被淘汰，而经验丰富的工程师将保持价值。

📢Jumpstart的联合创始人Matthew Sarre表示，他使用ChatGPT处理几乎所有事情，包括LinkedIn帖子的想法和营销建议。他认为AI在短期内会影响低技能岗位，但从长远来看，技术并不会取代工作，而是会补充工作。他也承认，考虑到目前进入市场的AI代理数量，他可能需要重新评估自己的观点。

AI gurus are arguing over whether it's going to upend the job market.BI spoke to four founders to ask how they use the tech and how they think it will affect jobs.They all said AI boosted their productivity but had concerns, too.

I asked four founders whether AI will take jobs, as tech's big guns argue about how it will transform the future of work.

During his European tour last week, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang slapped down Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei for warning AI could wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs.

At London Tech Week, where Huang delivered the keynote, founders told me how they use AI day-to-day — and whether they are worried about AI's impact on the job market.

They all expected some form of disruption, but some were more pessimistic than others.

Isa Mutlib, CoTalent AI

Isa Mutlib, founder of CoTalent AI, said he uses AI to access and process information faster in his daily work, such as coding and content generation.

He estimated AI was saving his company, which deploys customizable AI agents for businesses, between 50% and 70% of time on tasks. He said this meant it could deploy minimum viable products to clients within days rather than months.

Mutlib said he was "long-term optimistic, short-term pessimistic" about AI's impact on jobs.

He expects "some significant job losses immediately," but he said he thought that, over the long term, AI would create new opportunities.

He said this pattern was "not unusual" during past technological revolutions.

He said organizations need to rethink how they approach skills and work, adding that some skills thought essential 10 years ago were "no longer relevant."

"People need to understand that the future of work is changing," he added. "We've really got to think about it with a fresh new mindset."

Husayn Kassai, Quench AI

Husayn Kassai, founder of Quench AI, said AI threatens entry-level jobs in programming, customer service, and law, as it can do the type of work junior employees have historically done.

He said this made early-stage career progression harder, adding, "The career ladder is getting lifted up."

Kassai cited the example of law firms, saying they would historically have paralegals do the kind of research and administrative work that AI is now increasingly being used for.

He said generative AI was accelerating a decades-long "automation trend" that was causing a global rise in "underemployment and low-wage employment."

Workers wouldn't compete directly against AI but would compete with each other, he said, with those proficient in AI at an advantage.

Kassai said Quench, whose platform lets employees use AI agents to handle tasks based on company data, uses AI tools widely through its operations, including Cursor among its engineers. AI means his 14-strong startup can do work that would have required "35 or 40 people" a decade ago, he said.

AI won't ever be able to replace humans for "relationship-based stuff," he said.

Steven Kennington, Lumico

Steven Kennington, the cofounder of Lumico, said AI is "world-class" at solving technical and mathematical problems.

Kennington said engineers at Lumico, which develops software and hardware for businesses, sometimes use AI tools like GitHub Copilot.

He compared it to having an experienced programmer next to you. But he also said he was worried that vibe coding, where users describe what they want in plain-language prompts and AI generates code to make it happen, could lead to more junior developers implementing AI-generated code without understanding it.

Kennington said he expected an "unavoidable" skills gap as more people outsource work to AI instead of learning skills, whether that's coding or students using it to do homework.

He said he thought those who rely on AI for shortcuts and don't develop the right skills would be "weeded out" over time, meaning experienced engineers would remain valuable.

He said the "real engineers" of the future would be the ones who "know when to use it and when to not use it."

Matthew Sarre, Jumpstart

Matthew Sarre, the cofounder of Jumpstart, a talent platform for startups, said he used ChatGPT for "pretty much anything and everything," including ideas for LinkedIn posts and advice on "how to pull off a marketing or sales stunt."

He said he saw no direct impact on jobs for him and his company, but added he thought AI would "cause layoffs in the short term" for low-skilled roles.

However, looking further ahead, Sarre said, "History has shown us time and time again that technology does not replace jobs in the long term, rather it complements jobs."

He said AI was still a "dumb muscle" that relied on humans, even though it creates "awesome" things.

But, he said, in light of the number of AI agents now entering the market, "I may be about to eat my words."