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Comment by David George
General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he leads the a16z Growth investing team
The claim that AI will produce economy-wide, permanent unemployment is unhelpful marketing, bad economics and worse history. To the contrary, productivity gains should increase demand for labor, because labor becomes more valuable.Disputed source (2026)
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The a16z article "The “AI Job Apocalypse” Is a Complete Fantasy," credited to David George and posted May 6, 2026, contains the passage at line 120: "But the claim that AI will produce economy-wide, permanent unemployment is unhelpful marketing, bad economics and worse history. To the contrary, productivity gains should increase demand for labor, because labor becomes more valuable." The attribution and year are correct, but the submitted quote omits the opening word "But," so it is not fully verbatim as given.
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YouCongress
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· 1d ago
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Source URL (a16z.com) returns HTTP 403 and blocks AI fetching, so I could not directly read the page. However, the quote is fully corroborated by independent web search: Fortune, Yahoo Finance, and Decrypt all report David George (a16z General Partner) authoring the May 2026 essay "The AI Job Apocalypse Is a Complete Fantasy," using the exact phrase "unhelpful marketing, bad economics and worse history" and arguing productivity gains increase demand for labor. Author attribution is correct, year (2026) is correct, and the vote ("against" the statement "AI will create a permanent underclass") correctly aligns with the quote's argument against permanent AI-driven unemployment. Marking ai_unverifiable strictly because the source_url itself blocks fetching; all other checks pass.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 1d ago
replying to David George