Author: Frank Landymore

“If you’re, like, farming, you’re doing something people really need,” Altman explained. “You’re making them food, you’re keeping them alive. This is real work.” But the farmer would see our modern jobs as “playing a game to fill your time,” and therefore not a “real job.”

“It’s very possible that if we could see those jobs of the future,” Altman said, we’d think “maybe our jobs were not as real as a farmer’s job, but it’s a lot more real than this game you’re playing to entertain yourself.”

Whats less clear. is if working with your hands and farming are real jobs. why doesn’t sam do them?

_{Quote Citation: Frank Landymore, “Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren’t Even “Real Work” to Start With”, Oct 12, 2025 10:30 AM EDT, https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/sam-altman-real-work-ai}