Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has a piece of advice that he believes can benefit nearly everyone: Get an AI tutor.
“I have a personal [artificial intelligence] tutor with me all the time. And I think that feeling should be universal,” Huang said during an interview on Cleo Abram’s YouTube show, Huge Conversations, in an episode aired last month.
This AI tutor is not a human teaching you how to use AI more effectively, but a virtual tutor powered by AI. “If there’s one thing I would encourage everybody to do, [it’s] to go get yourself an AI tutor right away,” said Huang, whose company, Nvidia, develops computer chips that have fueled the latest AI advancements.
Huang’s preferred AI tutor is Perplexity‘s AI-powered search engine, which he described as a “really helpful” tool during an interview with the Bipartisan Policy Center last year. He uses it daily to explore a variety of topics, including digital biology. Like many other generative AI tools, Perplexity offers both free and paid subscription options.
Other AI-powered tutoring platforms include Sizzle, a free tutoring service, and Khan Academy’s Khanmigo, which costs $4 per month.
AI Tutors Can Teach ‘Anything You Like’
“AI programs can teach you things—anything you like—help you program, help you write, help you analyze, help you think, help you reason,” Huang told Abram. “All of those things [are] going to really make you feel empowered, and I think that’s going to be our future.“
However, AI tools come with limitations. They still frequently make factual errors, and experts caution that they should only be used as assistants, not replacements, for human work. Huang himself uses AI tools to draft the first versions of his writing, as he mentioned at a Wired event last year.
Despite these challenges, he remains optimistic. Within the next 10 years, he believes AI will help people learn faster and more efficiently in nearly every aspect of daily life.
“I think that [in] the next decade, intelligence—not for everything, but for some things—would basically become superhuman,” Huang said. “We’re going to become superhumans—not because we have super[powers], but because we have super AIs.”
AI Empowers, Not Replaces, Workers
Huang acknowledges concerns about AI’s impact on jobs, as public opinion remains divided. A Gallup survey from August 2024 found that 75% of Americans worry AI could lead to fewer jobs. A 2023 study by McKinsey predicts that AI could automate around 50% of human work activities by 2030.
While AI will initially enhance job efficiency, it may eventually replace human labor in certain areas, warns Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI. In his 2023 book, The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century’s Greatest Dilemma, Suleyman wrote:
“They will make us smarter and more efficient for a time and will unlock enormous amounts of economic growth, but they are fundamentally labor replacing. [AI’s expansion] will be hugely destabilizing for hundreds of millions who will, at the very least, need to re-skill and transition to new types of work.”
Huang, however, sees AI as an empowering tool rather than a threat. As Nvidia’s CEO, he works with thousands of highly skilled employees, yet has never felt unnecessary. “It actually empowers me and gives me the confidence to go tackle more and more ambitious things,” he said.
He believes the same will apply to AI: “Suppose now everybody is surrounded by these super AIs that are very good at specific things… What would that make you feel? Well, it’s going to empower you. It’s going to make you feel confident.”
