July 27th news, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, gave a cold shower to the expectation that "AI makes people work less" during his appearance on the "Relentless" podcast last Saturday. His judgment is: AI cannot help most people shorten their working hours. The main reason is that once productivity increases, people will constantly strengthen their sense of competition.

Altman mentioned that for a long time, CEOs of major technology companies have promised shorter working hours. Compared with history, people today indeed have more leisure time and improved quality of life. However, for some reason, society has never fulfilled the promise of "working four hours a week." He does not believe AI will change this.

His logic is that after AI increases productivity, people will set higher standards for themselves: "We always want more. We want to do new things and create new things for each other. This is a competition."

He continued: "I think after the arrival of the super intelligence era, we will all be busier. We will still complain about it, but deep down, we will be happier."