Ravi Kumar S. stands apart. While many technology leaders warn that artificial intelligence will hollow out junior roles, the Cognizant chief executive hires thousands of recent graduates. He calls tokenmaxxing a vanity metric. And he argues the workforce pyramid will flatten but not shrink at the base. Kumar’s stance carries weight. He runs a company with more than 350,000 employees and roughly $27 billion in revenue. Fortune captured his views in a wide-ranging conversation at the publication’s COO Summit. There he pushed back against months of dire forecasts from OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei. Both men later softened their predictions. “There was a little bit of fearmongering from reading about the fact that there’s going to be a collapse of jobs,” Kumar said. “I think there will be more jobs.” His company has felt the pressure to adapt. Cognizant pursued restructuring and layoffs under a plan called Project Leap. Yet it still brought on 20,000 entry-level college graduates last year.…