Gates believes smart robots will competitively perform physical tasks by the end of the decade, and customer support/sales jobs will be among the first white-collar roles affected. In contrast, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang believes AI will kill tasks instead of jobs. The tech sector saw nearly 250,000 layoffs last year, with 270,000 projected for this year, including Amazon's 16,000 and Oracle's 30,000 (nearly 20% of its workforce).