Chamath Palihapitiya, the AI investor and All-In podcast co-host, says artificial intelligence won't eliminate jobs — it will transform them. In a recent Axios interview, he challenged apocalyptic narratives about AI-driven job loss, arguing that history shows technology expands rather than ends human work. His reasoning: even if robots could handle plumbing, humans would still need to run the plumbing businesses and the robotics companies. Palihapitiya speculated that over centuries, humans might expand from doing roughly thirty-five daily tasks to as many as three hundred. He's not the only skeptic of the job apocalypse. MIT researchers recently characterized AI's labor market impact as a rising tide rather than a crashing wave, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said he'd been wrong about AI eliminating entire job categories. The pattern is consistent: disruption scrambles the economy, but it doesn't end work.

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