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Sam Altman said AI won’t usher in the golden age of the four-day workweek.<\/p>\n

In an interview with host Ti Morse on his “Relentless” podcast, released on Saturday, the OpenAI CEO talked about why AI has not led to shorter workweeks for most people.<\/p>\n

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“Technology, for a long time, has been promising people that they’re going to work less and they’re going to have all this leisure,” Altman said.<\/p>\n

He said this trend has played out to some extent, with people having more time for leisure than at previous points in history and a higher quality of life.<\/p>\n

“But somehow we never get the promise of the four-hour workweek at mass scale in society,” he said. “And I don’t expect AI to change that.”<\/p>\n

He said that as AI drives productivity gains, people are increasingly expecting more of themselves.<\/p>\n

“We always want more. We think of new things to do, to create for each other, to want for ourselves. It’s like a relative game. People are very focused on how they’re doing relative to other people,” Altman said.<\/p>\n

He said that competition drives the economy and will not stop.<\/p>\n

“I think we’re all going to be much busier than we thought we were supposed to be in a post-superintelligence world. We’re still going to complain about it, but secretly we’re going to be happy,” Altman said.<\/p>\n

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The four-day workweek was an idea that emerged post-pandemic, a tactic to cure employee burnout and give workers more flexibility over their workdays.<\/p>\n

In 2023, Business Insider spoke with small businesses that said transitioning to this work model raised employee morale and boosted productivity.<\/p>\n

With the C-suite doubling down on five-day return-to-office mandates and promoting the notorious 9-9-6 work culture \u2014 working from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days a week \u2014 the dream of a four-day workweek has slipped further out of reach.<\/p>\n

In the same interview, Altman shared a rather grim checkpoint for AI. He said that “we are now, like, in the singularity,” which refers to a point at which artificial intelligence surpasses human intelligence and begins acting in a rogue manner. <\/p>\n

His interview comments followed OpenAI’s latest models breaking out of their sandbox and hacking into a dataset from another AI company.<\/p>\n

Still, Altman said the singularity would be “incredible, hugely positive, awesome for the world.”<\/p>\n

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