OpenAI's chair is 'optimistic' about how AI will change work, and pointed to Excel to explain why

Bret Taylor says the future belongs to workers who can rethink their value.

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• Bret Taylor said that because of AI, some jobs are about to undergo a "tumultuous" five years.
• But he said he was "optimistic" about how the tech would transform work.
• He said that Microsoft Excel changed accounting without making its users "any less of an accountant."

OpenAI chair Bret Taylor has used Microsoft Excel to explain why he's "optimistic" that people will learn to work with AI...