The Career Skills AI Can’t Replace, According To AMD CEO Lisa Su
The Career Skills AI Can’t Replace, According To AMD CEO Lisa Su
Publish Date: 2026-06-02 13:29:00
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At a time when many professionals are worried that artificial intelligence could short circuit their careers, Advanced Micro Devices CEO Lisa Su has offered a bigger-picture perspective about the critical role humans will continue to play despite major technological advancements.
In a recent commencement speech at her alma mater MIT, Su—who came in at No. 10 on Forbes’ 2025 list of the World’s Most Powerful Women—told graduates: “For everything that AI can do, AI can’t decide which problems are worth solving. It can’t make the hard judgments when the data is not there. It can’t take responsibility for the outcomes. These are actually our responsibilities and they matter now more than ever.”
The tech CEO recounted other technology shifts of the past, including the birth of the internet, which changed how we communicate; mobile computing, which changed how we live; and cloud computing, which changed how we work. But unlike those previous developments, Su said that AI “has the potential to accelerate discovery in every field and help us solve problems that we’ve never been able to solve before.”
Nevertheless, she added, “Technology itself does not decide what the future looks like—the best people do.”
Read here to learn more about Su’s perspective on AI and why she says we don’t need more people who simply know how to use the tool—we need people who know how to apply it to solve big problems.
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