Naval Ravikant: Frontier Lab Researchers Privately Say Humans Will Soon Have Nothing to Do
4KTV · x · 2026-08-12
Naval Ravikant shared sharp insights on AGI at a recent event, joking that if AI labs are right about the future, there will be exactly two jobs left: Anthropic employees and sex workers for them.
Beneath the dark humor lies his private conversations with frontier lab researchers. He stated that those who know the most about the technology's trajectory are quietly telling him there will soon be nothing left for humans to do. He urged people to read between the lines of public statements, predicting that within a year, AI will build its own tools, and humans won't even be the customer anymore as AIs start talking to other AIs to solve centuries-old problems in material science, physics, and health.
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