Posted on 05/06/2026 3:33:31 PM PDT by blam
* OpenAI investor Vinod Khosla predicts 80% of jobs will be done by AI by the early 2030s.
* The AI investor joins a list of high-earning executives who have warned about the future of jobs.
* He frames the battle between the US and China for AI dominance as a "techno-economic war."
Billionaire venture capitalist Vinod Khosla says most of today's children won't need jobs when they grow up.
In a recent interview with Fortune Magazine, the Sun Microsystems cofounder and tech investor predicted that artificial intelligence will be able to do up to 80% of jobs by the early 2030s.
"It's pretty unlikely a five-year-old today will be looking for a job," he said.
Khosla, the founder of Khosla Ventures, has built a reputation for making bold, well-timed technology bets. He was the first institutional investor in OpenAI in 2019, investing $50 million at a $1 billion valuation — the largest initial investment of his career at the time.
In the interview, released Wednesday, he argued that rapid advances in AI and robotics will make most labor effectively free within 15 years, creating an era of extreme abundance and lower prices. .
Instead of money-making occupations, he said, people will pursue their passions.
"The need to work will go away," he said. "People will still work on the things they want to work on, not because they need to work."
Referring to manual labor jobs like assembly-line roles and farm work, Khosla said, "Those are not jobs. Those are servitude."
Khosla is the latest in a line of Silicon Valley executives who believe that some of today's most sought-after jobs might soon fade.
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If true imagine an entire world of worthless creatures
Does this fellow have a vested interest in making money off Ai ?
The Star Trek economy. You think social problems are bad now wait until that happens!
It's about time the little tykes started to pull their own weight, that's what I say.
They’ll all be soldiers in the next World War.
This guys an idiot. Why live then? AI is going to make the dot com boom look like Romper Room in the financial sense...
And apparently all about 90% of its effort/development is solely to produce idiocracy humans and manage them for sales and “security”.
How big is your freakin’ yard blam? I’d do it for leas than that as long as it isn’t golf course sized 🤣
I wasn’t even looking for a job when I was five, but I started my first job outside the home, picking berries, in 1962 when I was seven. My friends and I would walk about half a mile to catch the bus at 5:00 and we’d get home around 2:00. It was great getting out of the house, plus I could generally make about 12 silver quarters a day, which would be worth about $168 today. (Ignoring the change from silver coinage, that $3.00 would be equivalent to about $30 today from inflation only, still not bad money to a seven-year-old.)
History teaches that most will sit around smoking pot and accomplishing nothing.
Why would a billionaire need an employee?
The point of AI isn’t to improve labor. It’s to eliminate ppl.
They were predicting this for a long time.
Basically Marxism was build on that assumption.
But, no way!
I am sure, people will find a way to make money and keep themselves busy.
“Vinod Khosla Says He Thinks Today’s 5-Year-Olds Probably Won’t Need A Job”. I was delivering The Manhattan Mercury when I was six.
THOSE “SERVITUDE” FARM JOBS ARE FEEDING YOU, JERKFACE.
One thing/concept we’re probably going to have to work toward is the creation of several zones where people agree to “check backward” and operate at a level of technology that they mutually agree to limit at.
I’d have to do some noodling on the details (or write a book), but essentially if you’re in one, you can’t just level up if you’re suddenly incapacitated, ill, poor. You’ll make a cogent decision to enter an era and abide by the laws/technological limits thereof. You could expand/manufacture or restore that eras tech, but you couldn’t actually get out and reap whatever benefits there are in the at present timeframe EXCEPT for some critical life periods like age of majority, 35, 55 (arbitrary) or you could marry out.
There could be some form of trade out, in only for resources or recovered period items and out for finished human originated art/items/foods or tech considered collectable from the era.
Eras could be about 40 years apart.
1990’s (Jan 1 2000 cutoff)
1950’s (” 1960 “)
1910’s (” 1920 “)
1870’s Etc...
1800
1700
Aboriginal/Hunter Gatherer
(Hmmm I’m gonna hafta play with this idea)
“Round the clock lounging & hobbies?”
A pharmacological/industrial complex could REALLY milk something like that!
People working on the things they want to work on take their cues from an environment where people work and work is valued. In the future, a lot of people are going to simply stagnated and vegetate if society allows them to do so.
They’ll just get high and play video games all day.
$50,000 just becomes the new zero in that scenario. He must understand economics better than that?
Exactly. Only a condescending prick who has never gotten their hands dirty when working can make this stupid a prediction.
“It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” Did Yogi Berra really say that? Regardless, for a 5 year-old you are talking a decade and a half out.
Who in the past has accurately predicted labor trends with that kind of horizon? Why is this prediction different? Really, I am more of the opinion that we don’t really know how this will settle or what further disruption we will see.
I just might live to see it.
Elon suggested the federal government would simply issue hefty checks for all, funded by AI bounty. I hesitate to say this about a man who is far smarter and far more successful than me, but this is incredibly naive and foolish. We see massive favoritism and corruption in current government spending and this is not going to change simply because the source of tax revenue changes. Favored groups will get paid, the rest of us will receive subsistence checks. And of course, massive amounts of money that should come to us will instead be diverted to the pet projects of politicians.
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