{"id":26476,"date":"2026-03-04T11:23:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T11:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=26476"},"modified":"2026-03-04T11:23:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T11:23:12","slug":"investor-vinod-khosla-predicts-free-ai-labor-will-lead-to-an-era-of-few-jobs-and-great-abundance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=26476","title":{"rendered":"Investor Vinod Khosla predicts free AI labor will lead to an era of few jobs and great abundance"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Good morning.<\/strong> What will life be like in 2040? Pretty awesome, according to famed Silicon Valley investor Vinod Khosla.<\/p>\n

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Khosla, one of tech\u2019s most successful venture capitalists and entrepreneurs, put the first institutional money into OpenAI in 2019, investing $50 billion at a $1 billion valuation. (Last week, OpenAI raised $110 million at a $780 billion valuation.) Prior to founding his firm, Khosla Ventures, Khosla cofounded Sun Microsystems and Daisy Systems. He placed early bets in companies like Square and DoorDash, too, and has invested in energy startups like CommonWealth Fusion Systems.<\/p>\n

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All of this is to say, Khosla\u2019s track record for accurately predicting the future has been pretty good. So I flew to his office in Menlo Park to better understand Khosla\u2019s techno-optimistic outlook for the latest episode of my podcast, Fortune 500: Titans & Disruptors of Industry.<\/em><\/p>\n

Make no mistake, Khosla believes AI will replace most jobs and even the need for colleges in the not-so-distant future. But he also believes that life will become much more abundant and affordable in key areas, including education, health care, and housing. He sees no reason that a 5-year-old today should ever need to look for a job.<\/p>\n

I, of course, had many questions for Khosla about this: How does he think people will afford life without work, much less be happy and find purpose? What government policies are needed to ensure this utopian vision doesn\u2019t turn into dystopia?<\/p>\n

\u201cStarting in about 2030\u2014four years away\u201480% of all jobs will be capable of being done by an AI,\u201d Khosla said. \u201cWhat happens when all labor is free? $15 trillion of U.S. GDP is labor, and that $15 trillion will mostly go away. That\u2019s a hugely deflationary economy. But the abundance of goods and services [thanks to AI and robotics] will be very, very large. Prices will be very, very low. I would suspect by 2040, $30,000\u2014or maybe even $10,000\u2014will buy much more than you can buy if you have a $100,000 income today.\u201d<\/p>\n

We discussed all of this and more on the episode. Subscribe (and if you like it, please leave a review!) to Fortune 500: Titans & Disruptors of Industry <\/em>on Spotify, YouTube, and Apple.<\/p>\n

Contact CEO Daily via Diane Brady at diane.brady@fortune.com<\/em><\/p>\n

Top leadership news<\/h3>\n

Renegotiating a deal<\/b><\/p>\n

CEO Sam Altman says <\/span>OpenAI is rewriting its rushed Pentagon AI deal<\/span> after fierce backlash from employees and rivals for undercutting Anthropic\u2019s harder line on surveillance and autonomous weapons. OpenAI wants to add explicit bans on domestic spying and intelligence-agency use, but critics warn the revised safeguards remain vague and hard to enforce.<\/span><\/p>\n

A 4-week war?<\/b><\/p>\n

Goldman Sachs oil research head Daan Struyven <\/span>says crude markets are pricing in roughly four weeks of Strait of Hormuz disruption<\/span>, the threshold beyond which “demand destruction” could push oil into triple digits. For now, Brent sits at $78, up 8% since the U.S.-Israeli strike that killed Ayatollah Khamenei.<\/span><\/p>\n

The 6G revolution is here<\/b><\/p>\n

Writing from Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, <\/span>Fortune<\/span><\/i>‘s Kamal Ahmed reports that Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon has declared 6G inevitable<\/span>: “resistance is futile,” he said. 6G will be AI-native\u2014built to handle traffic between AI agents across devices, not just consumer calls and video. Qualcomm expects consumer testing by the 2028 LA Olympics, with broader rollout in 2029.<\/span><\/p>\n

The markets<\/h3>\n

S&P 500<\/b> futures are up 0.34% this morning. The last session closed down 0.94%. The <\/span>STOXX Europe 600<\/b> was up 0.57% in early trading. <\/span>The U.K.\u2019s FTSE 100<\/b> was up 0.27% in early trading.<\/span> Japan\u2019s Nikkei 225 <\/b>was down 3.61%.<\/span> China\u2019s CSI 300 <\/b>was down 1.14%. <\/span>Hong Kong\u2019s Hang Seng<\/b> was down 2.01%. <\/span>South Korea\u2019s KOSPI <\/b>was down 12.06%.<\/span> India\u2019s NIFTY 50 <\/b>was down 1.06%.<\/span> Bitcoin<\/b> was up to $71K.<\/span><\/p>\n

Around the watercooler<\/h3>\n

Palantir and other tech companies are stocking offices with tobacco products to increase worker productivity<\/span> by Catherina Gioino<\/span><\/p>\n

U.S. oil and gas exporters can\u2019t fill the Middle East supply gap, but Trump\u2019s pledge to insure and protect tankers stems the tide on surging prices<\/span> by Jordan Blum<\/span><\/p>\n

Top economist Mohamed El-Erian warns of stagflation gripping the entire world economy the longer the Iran war goes on<\/span> by Tristan Bove<\/span><\/p>\n

As Gen Z swaps dating apps for run clubs, Strava\u2019s CEO says the $2 billion unicorn plans to go public \u2018at some point\u2019<\/span> by Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez<\/span><\/p>\n

CEO Daily is compiled and edited by Joey Abrams, Claire Zillman, and Lee Clifford.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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