Sam Altman says AI won't shorten the workweek because humans secretly enjoy being busy

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A hot potato: Much like a cure for cancer, the shorter workweeks we were told AI would enable remain elusive. OpenAI boss Sam Altman has now explained why people aren't working four-hour days: it seems that we just love to work and compete with others, apparently.

One of the many benefits promised early in the generative AI boom was that it would boost productivity to the point where most of us could work fewer hours per week (and still be paid the same, presumably).

That hasn't happened, of course – unless you count all the people who've been laid off because of AI and now work no hours each week.

Altman gave his take on this topic during an interview with Ti Morse on the Relentless podcast. "Technology, for a long time, has...

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