“The need to work will go away.”
That’s how Vinod Khosla, founder of Khosla Ventures and the first major investor in OpenAI, describes the future of labor. He believes artificial intelligence will render most jobs economically unnecessary, dismantle corporate incumbents, and reshape global influence. The transition, in his view, is already underway.
“People will work on things because they want to, not because they need to pay their mortgage,” he said.
Khosla is not concerned with long-term AI alignment theories. He is focused on accelerating adoption, rebuilding critical infrastructure, and making sure Western democracies, not authoritarian regimes, dominate the future of AI. His firm’s early bet on OpenAI in 2018, which he calls “more than twice the largest initial
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