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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tptb meant it when they erected the Georgia Guidestones
“Any given government program will become the opposite of its name,” Elon Musk said recently
They will be the Eloi for the tech Morlocks.
So will they be selling whatever creations they produce? How will ppl pay for them?
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