New Delhi, Oct. 29 -- OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman has urged young professionals and aspiring entrepreneurs to look beyond traditional career paths as artificial intelligence reshapes the job market, saying that the biggest opportunities may lie in building businesses around technologies that are only beginning to emerge.

Speaking in an interview with Stanford Graduate School of Business last week, Altman said AI would take over many tasks currently performed by humans, changing how entire categories of jobs operate. But he pushed back against predictions of an imminent jobs apocalypse, arguing that a period of rapid change could give ambitious young people an advantage.

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