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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Says AI Won't Shorten the Workweek — We'll Be 'Much Busier' Instead

Altman said AI is more likely to raise productivity demands than cut hours, and he expects workers to become much busier.

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman claims that while artificial intelligence can create more free time for certain workers and companies, it will never lead to a shorter workweek.  While speaking on the "Relentless" podcast, Altman said that a four-day workweek is not fathomable, even though AI is "promising people that they're going to work less and they're going to have all this leisure."  What's happening? According to Futurism, Altman told "Relentless" h…

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Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, has cooled the expectation that artificial intelligence will bring a four-hour workweek. His words come in a year where more than 200,000 technological jobs have been destroyed, according to Layoffs.fyi data, and contradict the company’s own Industrial Policy report. Keys of operation Altman breaks with the classic promise of technology. He assures that productivity is never translated into fewer hours by innate human …

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According to the CEO of Open AI, people are so competitive that a leap in efficiency will not shorten workweeks to, for example, four days.

More leisure time through AI? OpenAI CEO Sam Altman refuses the 4-day week.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has denied one of the most frequently repeated promises of artificial intelligence in a new interview: that employees will have more free time, or even not have to work at all. Altman has previously funded a study on universal basic income. During that experiment...

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Hospodářské Nnoviny (HN.cz) broke the news on Wednesday, July 29, 2026.
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