Vinod Khosla has been thinking about artificial intelligence longer than most, and betting on it longer than almost anyone. The legendary venture capitalist who scored a 2,500x return with Juniper Networks and became the first institutional investor in OpenAI—wiring in $50 million at a $1 billion valuation—has a message for anyone fretting about AI taking their job: That’s probably going to happen, but it ultimately can be a good thing.
In a new episode of Fortune’s Titans and Disruptors of Industry podcast, Khosla sat down with Fortune editor-in-chief Alyson Shontell to expand on his vision of an AI-transformed economy—for better and worse. The picture he painted was both exhilarating and deeply unsettling, a world of radical abundance built on the rubble of the labor market as we know it. And unlike recent doomsday essays that have shaken markets, Khosla’s is a vision of equality and prosperity, not collapse. He stressed, however, that policymakers have to get things right.
