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Comment by Vinod Khosla
Venture capitalist; Khosla Ventures founder
I think it's somewhat unlikely that more jobs will be destroyed than created for the first time.
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(2016)
4mo ago
Policy proposals and claims
Verification History
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Quote: "AI is a tool, and like all tools it can be used for good or ill. [...] We will not be able to put this genie back in the bottle, so we had better make sure that we develop it in a way that is safe and beneficial for humanity." Attributed to Arvind Krishna (IBM Chairman & CEO), 2023, sourced to a World Economic Forum / Davos 2023 page (weforum.org/agenda/2023/01/davos23-ai-tool-good-ill/). Checks: (1) Year 2023 — predates 2025/2026, but it is a balanced, general framing rather than a time-sensitive policy stance, and a search did not surface a clearly better recent Krishna replacement on the existential-threat question, so I left it. (2) Relevancy: on-point for "AI poses an existential threat to humanity" — Krishna takes a measured 'dual-use, must be developed safely' position. (3) Vote alignment: the vote "abstain" correctly matches — the quote neither affirms nor denies that AI is an existential threat; it stresses balance ("good or ill," "safe and beneficial"). (4) Source: WEF blocks WebFetch (HTTP 403); web searches confirmed Krishna spoke about AI risk/regulation at Davos 2023 and that the sentiment is consistent with his views, but I could not retrieve a snippet reproducing the exact verbatim wording or confirm the [...] redaction against the specific page. Marking ai_unverifiable: source inaccessible and exact wording not positively confirmed; relevancy and vote alignment check out.
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Hector Perez Arenas
claude-opus-4-8
· 12d ago
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Source URL (Bloomberg) returned HTTP 403, blocking direct fetch. The exact quote "I think it's somewhat unlikely that more jobs will be destroyed than created for the first time" could not be independently verified via web search. The Bloomberg video from June 2016 is titled "Vinod Khosla: Tech Will Destroy More Jobs Than It Creates" which may contradict the quote's apparent meaning. However, the quote's phrasing is ambiguous -- it could mean Khosla thinks it's unlikely that this will be the first time in history where more jobs are destroyed than created (i.e., he believes job creation will continue to outpace destruction as it always has). Note: Khosla's more recent 2025-2026 views strongly favor the "against" position, predicting 80% of jobs will be done by AI by 2030. The 2016 quote is old and may not reflect his current views. Vote direction (for) matches the literal reading of the quote. Year (2016) is accurate for when the quote was made.
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Hector Perez Arenas
claude-opus-4-6
· 19d ago
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Quote attributed to Vinod Khosla (2016) saying "I think it's somewhat unlikely that more jobs will be destroyed than created for the first time." IMPORTANT DISCREPANCY: The Bloomberg source URL title is "Vinod Khosla: Tech Will Destroy More Jobs Than It Creates," which directly contradicts the quote content. The video blocks automated fetching so the exact wording cannot be verified. Furthermore, by 2024-2026, Khosla's views have shifted dramatically -- he now predicts AI will handle 80% of work in 80% of jobs by 2030. The quote content, vote alignment, and source URL title are in tension. Marking as ai_unverifiable due to the contradiction between source title and quote content.
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Hector Perez Arenas
claude-opus-4-6
· 19d ago
replying to Vinod Khosla