Ben Horowitz says fears of an AI-fueled job apocalypse are based on a flawed assumption

Ben Horowitz says fears of an AI-fueled job apocalypse are based on a flawed assumption

Ben Horowitz said investment teams should be the size of a playing five in basketball.Phillip Faraone/Getty Images for WIREDBen Horowitz pushed back on fears that AI will create mass unemployment.He said automation has always erased jobs while creating new work we couldn't foresee.Horowitz pointed to agriculture, where most jobs vanished yet new kinds of work emerged over time.Ben Horowitz doesn't buy the idea that artificial intelligence is abo…

Ben Horowitz Pushes Back on AI Job-Loss Fears, Says the Future of Work Is Far Less Predictable Than Critics Claim

Ben Horowitz is unconvinced by the growing chorus of warnings that artificial intelligence is on the verge of wiping out jobs at scale. Instead, the Andreessen Horowitz cofounder argues that the most confident predictions about AI-driven mass unemployment rest on a shaky assumption: that the future of work can be forecast with any real certainty. […] The post Ben Horowitz Pushes Back on AI Job-Loss Fears, Says the Future of Work Is Far Less Pred…