'not Necessarily Super Excited About This': Klarna's Ceo Says Ai Can Take Over All Jobs, Including His Own

Sebastian Siemiatkowski, CEO of "buy now, net later" financing institution Klarna, has an mentation for stating that AI tin move "all" jobs — moreover his own.

In a station connected X connected Sunday, Siemiatkowski laid retired his thought process for saying that "AI tin already do each our jobs," a remark he said past play which he acknowledged "caused alternatively a stir."

Siemiatkowski said that AI still needs overmuch investigation and betterment earlier it tin transcript each job, but it has each of nan earthy imaginable to do truthful down nan line.

He likened nan remark to stating that humans were tin of building cars, computers, and rockets—in nan twelvemonth 1700 but they needed hundreds of years of investigation and invention earlier they could really create a computer. Humans successful nan twelvemonth 1700 had brains that were conscionable arsenic tin arsenic ours, but they needed earthy materials to build modern technology.

In nan aforesaid way, AI is now "capable of doing each our jobs, my ain included," Siemiatkowski wrote. "Our activity is simply reasoning mixed pinch knowledge/experience."

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Siemiatkowski acknowledged, however, that "how precisely we will harvester those building blocks of logic and knowledge to replicate nan activity we do coming is not yet wholly solved."

— Sebastian Siemiatkowski (@klarnaseb) January 6, 2025

Siemiatkowski too wrote that he doesn't deliberation it will return hundreds of years for AI to return complete value work, but he said that nan imaginable of AI taking his business quickly is simply a "gloomy" one.

"I americium not needfully ace excited astir this," he wrote. "But I too judge we petition to beryllium honorable pinch what we deliberation will happen."

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Klarna claimed successful February that its AI customer activity adjunct did nan balanced activity of 700 value agents. In December, nan institution utilized an AI clone of Siemiatkowski to study its latest financial results.

Klarna has too implemented a hiring frost for complete a twelvemonth arsenic nan institution tries to supplement value activity pinch AI. Siemiatkowski told Bloomberg past play that complete 1,000 group personification adjacent Klarna since nan frost started, leaving down a 3,500-person workforce.

As Klarna's nett costs decrease, nan institution has told labour that "part of nan summation of that is going to beryllium seen" successful their paychecks.

Klarna was worthy $14.6 cardinal arsenic of October.

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