AI Is the Tsunami: Reid Hoffman on Jobs, Wealth & the Future of Work

Reid Hoffman on why AI is an earthquake and a tsunami, and how to be on the right side of it.
AI Is the Tsunami: Reid Hoffman on Jobs, Wealth & the Future of Work
Reid Hoffman and Van Jones, members of the Operation HOPE AI Ethics Council.

Reid Hoffman co-founded LinkedIn, backed some of the most important companies of the last twenty years, and has spent the last several thinking harder about artificial intelligence than almost anyone alive. This week he sat down with me for an unfiltered hour on what is coming.

His phrase for it is an earthquake and a tsunami. The earthquake is the disruption: jobs that change or disappear, industries that reorganize, an economy that shifts under our feet. The tsunami is what follows, and Reid is honest that not everyone will be ready for it.

But he is just as clear about the other side. AI assistants that could transform healthcare, legal access, and education for people who have never been able to afford them. New businesses that did not exist a year ago. A window, right now, for our communities to get in early instead of being left behind again.

We talk about what it takes to stay relevant, what parents should tell their kids, and what I am doing at Operation HOPE to make sure the tsunami lifts our people instead of drowning them. Listen closely to this one.

🎧 Listen now — wherever you get your podcasts, or simply click below.

▶️ Prefer to watch? The full conversation is on my YouTube channel.

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