{"id":999937,"date":"2026-03-30T07:40:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T02:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=999937"},"modified":"2026-03-30T07:40:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T02:10:17","slug":"marc-andreessen-dismisses-ai-layoff-fears-musk-says-work-will-be-optional-in-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/30\/marc-andreessen-dismisses-ai-layoff-fears-musk-says-work-will-be-optional-in-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Marc Andreessen dismisses AI layoff fears; Musk says work will be optional in future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marc Andreessen, founder of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), has dismissed concerns about mass layoffs driven by artificial intelligence (AI), arguing that technological progress historically expands rather than shrinks. <\/p>\n<p>He added that AI will create more opportunities for \u201chuman-intensive\u201d work. <\/p>\n<p>Responding to Andreessen\u2019s remarks on X, Elon Musk said that in the long term, \u201cworking will be optional,\u201d reflecting a more radical view of AI\u2019s impact on the future of labour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marc Andreessen, founder of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), has dismissed concerns about mass layoffs driven by artificial intelligence (AI), arguing that technological progress historically expands rather than shrinks. He added that AI will create more opportunities for \u201chuman-intensive\u201d work. Responding to Andreessen\u2019s remarks on X, Elon Musk said that in the long term, \u201cworking will be optional,\u201d reflecting a more radical view of AI\u2019s impact on the future of labour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-999937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=999937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}