Nvidia's Jensen Huang urges employees to automate every task possible with AI

[Skye Jacobs]

The big picture: Nvidia is using its commanding market position to showcase how deeply an AI-driven company can embed automation into its own structure – right down to daily workflows. CEO Jensen Huang has sent a message to employees: at Nvidia, AI should not only power the world's data centers but also power the company itself.

Huang has reportedly told employees to use artificial intelligence tools for virtually every task possible, reinforcing the company's position as both a leader in AI hardware and one of its most aggressive internal adopters. According to an audio recording obtained by Business Insider, Huang's remarks came during an all-hands meeting following a quarter in which the company posted $57 billion in revenue – its strongest on record.

The meeting became notable for Huang's blunt response to reports that some Nvidia managers were discouraging employees from relying too much on AI. "Are you insane?" he said, according to the report. "I want every task that is possible to be automated with artificial intelligence to be automated with artificial intelligence."

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Huang's comments reflected Nvidia's larger internal pivot toward making AI tools a standard part of its workflow. He reportedly urged engineers to continue using tools such as the AI-assisted coding platform Cursor – which the company's own developers rely on – and to keep refining them when tasks fall short of full automation.

The directive comes amid similar moves by other major technology firms. Microsoft and Meta have tied AI use to employee performance evaluations, while Google has instructed its engineering teams to incorporate its generative AI systems into coding work. Amazon has also explored deploying Cursor in response to employee demand, according to Business Insider.

These internal mandates mark a notable shift from AI as an optional productivity enhancer to a required professional tool. Across the technology sector, managers increasingly expect engineers to integrate automation and generative AI not just for speed, but also to ensure familiarity with the systems driving their companies' next-generation products.

Huang also addressed a recurring anxiety within the workforce: whether these same tools could eventually eliminate some roles. He expressed confidence that Nvidia's rapid expansion leaves little reason for worry.

The company grew from 29,600 employees at the end of fiscal 2024 to 36,000 a year later and continues to hire aggressively. Huang said Nvidia is "probably still about 10,000 short" of its staffing needs, citing expansion into new facilities in Taipei, Shanghai, and multiple US sites.

"I promise you, you will have work to do," Huang told employees.

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Nvidia's Jensen Huang urges employees to automate every task possible with AI

 

[MasterAce]

Interesting to see if the quality suffers.

Already their TWIMP stuff run like potatoes on a 5090, how much worse can it get? Their driver reputation already suffered with continuous problems. Like really? Does this make any sense?

 

[gdavid65]

What dickheads.. "we might have to prove that we can actually do things with AI, or else everyone else will cotton on it's all overblown compared to these ridiculous valuations, and our lofty share evaluations will crater, and you'll all be out of a job anyway".

Eat ones own dogfood.. until you vomit on it...

I once though Altman, Huang, Musk, Zuckerberg, etc were once, somewhat slightly sane... Ok, a few years back now. I now know they're absolutely batshit crazy

 

[Che Cazzo]

"Jensen Huang urges employees to automate every task possible with AI"

Also Jen:

"He insists automation will not eliminate jobs as the company grows to 36,000 workers"

Peddling his product that will eliminate jobs.....while adding 1000s to his own company!

This amount of massive irony needs an AI to manage it!!

 

[Neatfeatguy]

Automate your job as much as possible and keep it.....

Sounds like what happens before hand when you're about to get let go, someone else in the company comes around and you're asked to help cross train them so things can be more efficient when you're out of the office sick or on vacation. After you cross train your coworker, you find yourself let go.

Good on you Nvidia, fool these workers into lulling them into a false sense of security and then pounce! Kick them out the door.

 

[arrowflash]

Well, of course the shovel seller will urge people to use shovels even as spoons.

 

[James321]

This dipshit need a gag order against him and his cronies.

 

[sak500]

"He insists automation will not eliminate jobs as the company grows to 36,000 workers"
Till the employees teach the AI to do their jobs and then from 36k workers they shrink down to 16k workers.
First it was 3D then it went down the drain, then cloud computing hype now AI bubble . Keep coming out with terms to sell your overpriced hardware.

 

[toooooot]

Urges automate with AI, and then step aside and let AI do the rest of their tasks like good ex-employees do.

 

[Alfonso Maruccia]

"Dear Santa, I have this itchy urge to burst a bubble right now..."

 

[seeprime]

That BS has been peddled before. Jobs will be eliminated once automation becomes capable of performing specific tasks.

 

[pietklerckx]

Of he starts to replace himself with AI, I might believe him.

 

[MonicaPython2]

Automation with AI could generate false or misleading information that appears to be factual

 

[umeng2002]

Automate your job. When you're done, we'll fire you.

 

[Vanderlinde]

Facebook has hired an team back in the days to build a AI based moderation. After it was test driven and enforced, pretty much all of it's moderators where sacked.

The same is going to happen here; once the AI has been trained to accomplish what all those workers would have done, they will be send because they are useless.

 

[airbornex]

The interesting part isn’t the automation push itself, it’s the cultural shift. When a CEO says automate anything you can, that signals to employees that experimentation is safer than hesitation. In a lot of companies, the fear isn’t AI... it’s breaking something. Nvidia seems to be flipping that mindset on purpose.

 

[JaredTheDragon]

There is literally not one single task at this entire company that Artificial Stupid can do. Not one. It's literally just marketing hype, and Jensen never worked a real day in his life.

 

[toooooot]

I hear Youtube AI moderation is horrible

 

[benefitthirteen]

"In that you folks know your jobs better than anyone, we can think of no finer group of people to train their replacements."

 

[BobHome]

The Perfect Storm... is what came to mind reading the title.

 

[ZedRM]

Jensen's advice needs to be ignored. AI isn't as useful as some are making it out to be. Jensen is trying to sell the hardware AI runs on. He's selling something.

He's a salesman, not a revolutionary, not a visionary, just a lowly salesman. Stop buying what he's peddling and we'll all be better off.

 

[p51d007]

Huang wants his employees to "train" their replacements. And Huang thinks after he fires most of his employees, his "worth" goes up. What a worthless POS.

 

[BogdanR]

The TLDR:
“You’re out of your job anyway… at least this way you can contribute a little more to your IRAs which will be totally worthless anyway when this AI bubble pops”