OpenAI’s CFO says AI is replacing some jobs, but many are mundane ones

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar said that AI is reducing the need for some workers, but only repetitive ones.

In a Tuesday interview with CNBC’s Jim Cramer on “Mad Money,” Friar addressed AI use for efficiency at OpenAI, using her own finance department as an example.

“There is no doubt we are doing things with our own products inside of finance, for example, that do limit the number of people we need,” Friar told Cramer. “But in many cases it’s for jobs that I don’t think of as great jobs, frankly.”

Friar pointed to credit checks as one example. OpenAI’s procurement operation was conducting them at an annual rate of 2,800 last year, she said.

“That…