Billionaire OpenAI investor Vinod Khosla thinks 80% of jobs could vanish by 2030, and that 'fear of AI' put American politics in a chokehold.

The article focuses on billionaire venture capitalist Vinod Khosla’s warnings about the political and economic impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) by 2030, when he predicts 80% of jobs will be AI-capable and subject to displacement. Speaking at the Hill & Valley Forum, Khosla emphasized that fear of AI will dominate the 2028 presidential election and that political resistance, rather than AI’s capabilities, poses the greatest threat to its adoption. He proposed solutions such as increasing social services, restructuring the tax code to eliminate income tax for those earning under $100,000, and leveraging AI to provide accessible healthcare. Senator Maria Cantwell of Washington supported deploying AI tools to the public with privacy protections and suggested forming a "tech NATO" to standardize democratic countries’ technology principles. [Extracted from the article]