jobs

7 statements across 7 episodes · 2 bullish · 3 bearish · 7 people on the record · first statement Jun 2, 2023 by Yann LeCun · across every show →

Everything said about jobs, oldest first

Jun 2, 2023 positive
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Expert: The ecosystem around open LLMs will create net jobs
“There'll be like a whole economy around this, which will create jobs by the way, not make them disappear.”
Yann LeCun Jun 2, 2023 ▶ 15:35 20VC: Who Wins the AI Race; Startups or Incumbents & Does Having Proprietary Data Really Matter For Startups Today?
Nov 22, 2023 bullish
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Seibert: AI will boost productivity rather than replace human jobs
“Ah, so I would say actually, on a good light, AI won't replace many jobs, I think, actually. It'll drive productivity, not replacement, and it'll be like other technologies that have come out, like phones didn't replace people, now you just use them and you ca…”
Jeff Seibert Nov 22, 2023 ▶ 56:38 Jeff Seibert: Why OpenAI Will Become an Infrastructure Play | E1085 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 15, 2024 bearish
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Ferrari predicts AI will eliminate far more jobs than it creates
“But I will say, maybe, no, I don't, it doesn't qualify as advice, but the opinion I hear most often that I think is really poorly informed and poorly thought out is that Artificial intelligence will create more jobs than it will eliminate. I believe, and again…”
Luca Ferrari Mar 15, 2024 ▶ 58:47 Luca Ferrari: Scaling to 500M Downloads, $360M in Reported 2023 Sales and a $2.55BN Valuation |E1127 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 28, 2024
Insight
Narayanan: AI automates individual tasks, not entire jobs
“You know, the more abstract way of saying that is, as economists would put it, jobs are bundles of tasks, And AI automates tasks, not jobs. So if there are, you know, 20 different tasks that comprise a job the odds that AI is gonna be able to automate all 20 o…”
Arvind Narayanan Aug 28, 2024 ▶ 41:13 Arvind Narayanan: AI Scaling Myths, The Core Bottlenecks in AI Today & The Future of Models | E1195 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Nov 18, 2024
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De Botton: Industrial processes, not higher expectations, drained meaning from work
“So it's not so much that we want more meaning, it's that quite naturally, without anyone meaning to, modern industrial processes have drained many jobs Of their meaning.”
Alain de Botton Nov 18, 2024 ▶ 37:52 Alain De Botton: Why Status is Making You Miserable & Why Parents Want Their Kids to Fail · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Sep 22, 2025 negative
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Taneja: AI adoption will materially impact jobs within five years
“I would say this is a five year problem. And I say that because if you go back and think about the physics With which these companies are getting built, the companies we're building, you have to put these teams together and they have to go get some customers t…”
Hemant Taneja Sep 22, 2025 ▶ 16:47 General Catalyst CEO, Hemant Taneja: Lessons Scaling GC to $40BN in AUM · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 19, 2026 negative
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O'Driscoll: Compute is actively replacing human jobs
“And today, compute eats jobs.”
Rory O'Driscoll Mar 19, 2026 ▶ 0:33 NVIDIA Predicts $1TRN in Revenue: Everything You Need to Know From GTC & Anduril Lands $20B Contract · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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