Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang has proposed a novel compensation model for engineers, offering artificial intelligence tokens as an additional incentive alongside their base salary. This approach aims to reward employees for deploying AI agents, which Huang envisions as productivity multipliers capable of automating complex tasks. During a speech at the GPU Technology Conference, Huang emphasized that engineers would receive a portion of their annual salary—estimated at hundreds of thousands of dollars—as tokens, which can be used to run AI tools and streamline workflows. Huang described tokens as a growing recruitment tool in Silicon Valley, highlighting their potential to enhance productivity by giving engineers access to AI systems. He outlined a broader vision of the workplace, where human workers collaborate with vast fleets of AI agents. These agents, he argued, could handle multi-step tasks with minimal human input, marking a shift toward a workforce that blends biological and digital employees. Huang previously stated that Nvidia’s employees would one day work alongside hundreds of thousands of AI agents, comparing the scale to his company’s 42,000 human staff. The idea of AI-driven labor transformation has sparked debate among investors and economists. Howard Marks, founder of Oaktree Capital Management, warned of an "incredible leap ahead in AI's capabilities," noting that the technology’s ability to act autonomously could redefine its economic impact. Marks suggested this distinction could separate a $50 billion market from a multi-trillion-dollar one. Goldman Sachs estimates that AI could automate 25% of U.S. work hours, potentially displacing 6% to 7% of jobs over time.#nvidia #jensen_huang #goldman_sachs #gpu_technology_conference #oaktree_capital_management
