The scientist who helped create AI says it's only 'a matter of time' before every single job is wiped out [View all]

https://fortune.com/2025/12/19/yoshua-bengio-ai-only-a-matter-of-time-before-every-single-job-is-wiped-out-even-gen-z-trade-plumbing/

By Orianna Rosa Royle
Associate Editor, Success
December 19, 2025, 9:15 AM ET

You’re not imagining it: The AI job squeeze isn’t some future apocalypse, it’s already quietly underway.

Professor Yoshua Bengio spent four decades building the technology that is now coming for your job. He is a computer science professor at the Université de Montréal, a Turing Award winner, and one of the most-cited scientists in the world on Google Scholar—and now he’s turned his back on his life’s work to warn that your job is probably already under threat.

Desk jobs, or as Bengio called them, “cognitive jobs, the jobs that you can do behind a keyboard,” will be the first casualties of automation.

“It’s just a matter of time,” the AI pioneer stressed on Steven Bartlett’s Diary of a CEO podcast.

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Yoshua Bengio helped create the technology that is now coming for your job—and he thinks anyone who works on a laptop or computer is already under threat. Twenty47studio/Getty Images