{"id":509079,"date":"2025-10-18T09:23:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T09:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/509079\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T09:23:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T09:23:13","slug":"openai-ceo-sam-altman-says-those-who-lost-their-jobs-to-ai-werent-actually-doing-a-job-becuase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/509079\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says: Those who lost their jobs to AI weren’t actually doing a job, becuase \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"OpenAI OpenAI CEO Sam Altman<\/a> has suggested that the types of jobs that are being eliminated or transformed by artificial intelligence (AI) may not be considered “real work” in the long run. During an interview with Rowan Cheung at OpenAI<\/a>\u2019s recent DevDay conference, Altman was asked about the possibility of AI destroying almost a billion knowledge-worker jobs before new ones are created. Altman used a thought experiment about a farmer from half a century ago to explain the situation. He said that a farmer \u201cvery likely would look at what you do and I do and say, \u2018that\u2019s not real work\u2019.” Altman suggested that this perspective makes him feel “a little less worried” about the job losses. The conversation was centred on the uncertainty of what new jobs AI will create in the coming decades, similar to how a farmer in the past could not have imagined the jobs created by the internet.What OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said about the jobs that AI may take awaySam Altman took up the “farmer” analogy when asked about the possibility of a billion jobs being destroyed before new ones are realised.\u201cThe thing about that farmer,\u201d Altman said, is not only that they wouldn\u2019t believe you, however \u201cthey very likely would look at what you do and I do and say, \u2018that\u2019s not real work.\u2019\u201dAltman explained that this perspective makes him feel \u201ca little less worried\u201d but \u201cmore worried in some other ways.\u201dHe compared the nature of work across eras, noting that a farmer performs essential labour by producing food and sustaining life, which he called \u201creal work.\u201d He suggested that from a farmer\u2019s perspective, many modern occupations might seem like \u201cplaying a game to fill your time\u201d rather than a \u201creal job.\u201dLooking ahead, Altman added that \u201cit\u2019s very possible that if we could see those jobs of the future,\u201d we might feel that \u201cmaybe our jobs were not as real as a farmer\u2019s job, but it\u2019s a lot more real than this game you\u2019re playing to entertain yourself.\u201dAltman\u2019s main point seems to be that jobs evolve. So, people shouldn\u2019t stress too much about losing their jobs to AI, because, as he suggests, even a farmer from the past may see today\u2019s jobs as \u201cfake.\u201dBut then again, future workers may see our jobs as more \u201creal\u201d than whatever they\u2019ll be doing in the AI era. This suggests that Altman believes things will eventually work themselves out.\u201cI\u2019m so willing to bet on human drives being what they are,\u201d Altman said. \u201cAnd I think we\u2019ll find plenty of things to do.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has suggested that the types of jobs that are being eliminated or transformed by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3163],"tags":[323,166605,64742,166608,45360,1942,166606,68486,1318,129248,166607,20208,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-509079","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-ai-and-job-loss","10":"tag-ai-job-cuts","11":"tag-ai-jobs-real-work","12":"tag-altman","13":"tag-artificial-intelligence","14":"tag-artificial-intelligence-impact-on-jobs","15":"tag-future-of-work","16":"tag-openai","17":"tag-openai-ceo","18":"tag-rowan-cheung","19":"tag-sam-altman","20":"tag-technology","21":"tag-uk","22":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115394446024692062","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}