What is in a job? Well, according to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, jobs created by the internet are not real work and were \u201ckind of created out of nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n
The founder of ChatGPT spoke with Rowan Cheung at DevDay 2025. Altman used the analogy of telling a farmer 50 years ago that a magical thing called the internet would create a billion new jobs, and that the farmer would likely not believe that would happen, as being similar to what is happening in the intelligence era.<\/p>\n
Many jobs will be created, but it\u2019s hard to see what those jobs will be. Altman acknowledged that this \u201cmakes me a little bit less worried and more worried in some other way.\u201d<\/p>\n
While agreeing that the farmer would not only not believe that this would happen, Altman also said<\/a>, \u201cthey very likely would look at what you do or I do and say, like, \u2018That\u2019s not real work.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n Farming is work that makes food to keep people alive, which is real work, he said.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s very possible that if we could see those jobs in the future<\/a>, we would be like \u2018Okay, well\u2026 maybe 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.\u201d<\/p>\n Altman went on to say that he strongly believes \u201cpeople will still have tons of meaning in their life, but I can very much believe that what we think of as work really changes, and from our records perspective, it would maybe look more like less life work than what we do now.\u201d<\/p>\n The CEO stated that he also believes the social contract will change significantly, especially if a transition occurs quickly. This gives him \u201csome short-term worries as we go through this transition, but, man, I\u2019m so willing to bet on human drives being what they are. And I think we\u2019ll find plenty of things to do.\u201d<\/p>\n Among the other topics the two discussed, Altman said he believes we are not far from agents working without human oversight and feedback.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t think Codex<\/a> is that far away from working from a week of work,\u2019\u2019 Altman said, referring to OpenAI\u2019s software engineering agent that translates natural language into code.<\/p>\n To get there will require \u201csmarter models, long context, better memory,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n In response to a question from Cheung, Altman said if he could set one global policy, there should be some global framework for AI regulation<\/a> \u201cto reduce catastrophic risk,\u2019\u2019 which \u201cwould seem very good.\u201d<\/p>\n In August 2025, Altman said that OpenAI will invest \u201c<\/strong>trillions of dollars on datacenter construction<\/strong><\/a>\u201d in the future, saying such an investment will pay off in the long run.<\/strong><\/p>\n The post Sam Altman: Jobs in the Intelligence Era Are \u2018Not Real Work\u2019<\/a> appeared first on eWEEK<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is in a job? Well, according to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, jobs created by the internet are not real work and were \u201ckind of created out of nothing.\u201d The founder of ChatGPT spoke with Rowan Cheung at DevDay 2025. Altman used the analogy of telling a farmer 50 years ago that a magical thing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5363"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Work without human oversight, regulating AI<\/h2>\n