Glean CEO argues AI will augment rather than replace workers, contrasting with other executives who warn of job losses

Arvind Jain, CEO of enterprise search platform Glean (valued at $7.2 billion), stated at Fortune's Workplace Innovation Summit that AI 'never replaces any human' and instead 'augments us, enables us, allows us to do higher quality work.' He added that working with the largest enterprises in the world, the company is 'not seeing any role getting eliminated—not today.'

Jain's position contrasts with warnings from other tech leaders: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei cautioned that AI could wipe out up to half of white-collar jobs within the foreseeable future; JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon predicted AI efficiencies could lead to role elimination; Ford Motor Company CEO Jim Farley warned AI could replace 'literally half' of white-collar workers in the U.S.

Glean, founded in 2019 by former Google search engineers, has built enterprise search and AI agents (autonomous systems that perform work on behalf of users) to foster efficient workflows. Jain noted that when the company started, 'AI was actually not as powerful as it is today,' and the company initially viewed AI tools as assistants to help work go 'a little bit faster.'