Sam Altman isn’t known for understatement, but even by his own standards, what he said on stage at OpenAI’s DevDay conference earlier this month was pretty problematic. In a live interview with AI newsletter founder Rowan Cheung, Altman data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/sam-altman-says-jobs-gets-143000252.html” target=”_blank” data-url=”https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/sam-altman-says-jobs-gets-143000252.html” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none”>made a sweeping claim that many jobs that vanish in the age of large language models might not have been “real work” in the first place.
Responding to a thought experiment about how a farmer from 50 years ago might view our current reality, Altman said, “The…

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