Robinhood CEO Says AI Could Spark a ‘Job Singularity’
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In brief Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev said AI is driving a “job singularity,” accelerating the creation of new jobs and industries. In a TED Talk, he argued AI gives individuals “a world-class staff,” lowering barriers to entrepreneurship. Tenev predicted a rise in micro-corporations, solo institutions, and single-person unicorns as work reorganizes around individuals. We’ve all heard the dystopian prognostications about AI and how it’ll wipe out the job market. But here’s a rosier view, according to Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev, who, during a recent TED Talk, said AI could drive a “Cambrian explosion” of new innovation and job creation. “We’re on a curve of rapidly accelerating job creation, which I like to call the ‘job singularity,’ a Cambrian explosion of not just new jobs but new job families across every imaginable field,” Tenev said. “Where the internet gave people worldwide reach, AI gives them a world-class staff.” Tenev said that the shift reorganizes the future of work by giving individuals capabilities once reserved for large firms. As AI tools take on tasks across engineering, marketing, research, operations, and customer support, he argued that people can operate with far less institutional support, lowering the barriers to launching companies and new kinds of work. “There’s going to be a flurry of new entrepreneurial activity with micro-corporations, solo institutions, and single-person unicorns—which, by the way, I don’t think we’re very far from,” he said. Research supports elements of Tenev’s thesis, including an October 2025 study from MIT Sloan School of Management, which said firms that adopt AI tend to grow faster and add jobs. A January 2025 analysis from the World Economic Forum, meanwhile, estimated nearly 170 million new roles will emerge as AI use spreads. Tenev said this job singularity is part of a long historical pattern in which entire classes…
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