NVIDIA CEO: Have More Ambition Than Your Company Can Handle

Jensen Huang is once again speaking out against AI pessimism. 

Taking the stage at ServiceNow’s Knowledge 2026 Conference, the NVIDIA CEO discussed the impact of AI on jobs and employee productivity, telling ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott that it was time for corporate leaders to “use AI to do the work”.

“Many people think AI will change jobs,” Jensen said. “Some worry that AI will destroy jobs. But what we all need to know first is that as long as you have greater ambition than your company can currently handle, AI is currently only playing the role of creating jobs.”

Infrastructure growth creates new opportunities

According to Jensen, job prospects are increasing rapidly across what he refers to as the “five-layer cake,” – energy, chips, infrastructure, models and applications. 

“The number of jobs in the energy sector is surging,” he says. “And in the semiconductor sector, we can see jobs, factories, manufacturing facilities and computer plants being built around the world. Infrastructure is also creating unprecedented jobs.”

Research from the Northern Virginia Technology Council and the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission suggests that a typical data centre or around 250,000 square feet could add up to 1,500 workers on site during the construction phase. 

This, combined with McKinsey analysis finding that companies will invest almost US$7tn in capital expenditures on data centre infrastructure globally, is fuelling the “unprecedented,” job growth Jensen describes – so much so that some organisations are developing initiatives to manage increased demand for skilled labour. 

BlackRock, for instance, announced in March that it would invest US$100m in the BlackRock Future Builders Initiative, which is designed to connect workers to skilled trades training, with the company saying that matching the pace of demand was “essential” for enabling economic growth. 

“Remarkable growth is happening at every layer,” Jensen continues. “I think the story around AI needs to be retold.”

Employee AI adoption

As the workforce increases its use of AI, many businesses are looking at ways to streamline their teams – but Jensen says that this is the wrong approach. 

“You might think of productivity as cost reduction, but I think productivity should be thought of as raising ambition," he says. "AI will help realise your ambitions faster than you ever have.” 

Companies that facilitate AI adoption in their workforce, Jensen says, will have employees who are “tremendously empowered,” advising that leaders need to “redeploy employees and actively utilise them”.

This can be seen within NVIDIA’s workforce, where Jensen says employees have been “freed,” by AI adoption, allowing them to “focus on the problems they want to solve”. 

Jensen has been an advocate for AI use within NVIDIA for some time, going so far as to call managers within the company who limit AI usage within their teams “insane,”. 

In an earnings call reported on by Business Insider, he said: “My understanding is that Nvidia has some managers who are telling their people to use less AI.

“I want every task that is possible to be automated with AI to be automated with AI. I promise you, you will have work to do.”