Billionaire investor Vinod Khosla sees an AI-powered labor transformation so massive it will eliminate the need for today’s 5-year-olds to have jobs. In an interview with Fortune editor-in-chief Alyson Shontell on the Titans and Disruptors of Industry podcast, Khosla said AI will be capable of performing 80% of all jobs—from physicians to radiologists, accountants to salespeople. This massive AI displacement would essentially narrow labor costs to zero, also making goods and services much less expensive. Ultimately, Khosla said, today’s youngest generation would not need to acquire a college degree to find a job—or even need to find a job at all. Khosla bet early on AI, and his venture capital firm, Khosla Ventures, was one of OpenAI’s first institutional investors in 2019. “It’s pretty unlikely a 5-year-old today will be looking for a job,” he said. “The need to work will go away,” Khosla added. “People will still work on the things they want to work on, not because they need to work.” Read more: https://fortune.com/2026/03/04/why-wont-five-year-olds-have-to-work-as-adults-ai-vinod-khosla-openai/ submitted by /u/fortune
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