--- title: Reid Hoffman on Robots Taking Jobs description: We’ll reinvent work and forge a new set of jobs canonical: https://time.com/collections/question-everything/4030665/reid-hoffman-will-ai-overtake-humans/ article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-15T18:00:23.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-02T23:09:07.607Z og:title: Reid Hoffman: Robots Will Take Our Jobs—But We Will Adapt og:description: We’ll reinvent work and forge a new set of jobs og:url: https://time.com/collections/question-everything/4030665/reid-hoffman-will-ai-overtake-humans/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0e06cd118bfedc54/69886332524fc017b5df475a/question-everything-ai-reid-hoffman.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Reid Hoffman: Robots Will Take Our Jobs—But We Will Adapt og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Reid Hoffman: Robots Will Take Our Jobs—But We Will Adapt twitter:description: We’ll reinvent work and forge a new set of jobs twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0e06cd118bfedc54/69886332524fc017b5df475a/question-everything-ai-reid-hoffman.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Sep 15, 2015 # Robots Will Take Our Jobs—But We Will Adapt > Sponsored content. 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Terms and conditions apply. * Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account. * No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle. * Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner. * Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account. by Reid Hoffman  NEW YORK, NY - JULY 10: Actor Haley Joel Osment discusses his new series "The Spoils Before Dying" at AOL Studios In New York on July 10, 2015 in New York City. (Photo by Adela Loconte/WireImage) NEW YORK, NY - JULY 10: Actor Haley Joel Osment discusses his new series "The Spoils Before Dying" at AOL Studios In New York on July 10, 2015 in New York City. (Photo by Adela Loconte/WireImage)Getty Images; Illustration by Mia Tramz for TIME Machines have been taking jobs from people (and horses and carrier pigeons) for hundreds of years now. Robots and artificial intelligence technologies (AI) simply continue this trend. In the past, when major technology shifts occurred, the new machines made many jobs obsolete—but they created even more new ones. In at least some cases that’s happening now too. As economist Tyler Cowen points out in his book _Average is Over_, an F-16 fighter aircraft requires the support of around 100 people, including the pilot, to fly a single mission. A Global Hawk surveillance drone requires 300. But that’s just one example. The worry now is that today’s technologies are evolving much more rapidly than those of the past. The patterns of disruption happen faster now, within lifetimes. In addition, today’s machines aren’t just providing new sources of physical labor—they’re providing brainpower too. AI systems will increasingly perform functions that were once handled by lawyers, doctors, journalists, and virtually every other kind of knowledge worker, along with factory workers, truck drivers and taxi drivers, retail personnel, and more. This shift will continue to create broad benefits to consumers, as AI systems simultaneously improve performance and drive down prices so that more people can access a broader range of services. But how does one thrive as a worker in this new world? One key is to encourage the development of AI systems and robots that are designed to enhance professionals, rather than replacing them altogether. In a medical setting, for example, AI systems will increasingly handle diagnoses and treatment planning, but caregivers will still be necessary—and have more time for—more substantive personal interaction with patients. There’s a flipside to this dynamic too, of course. As Cowen and others, including MIT professors Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, have suggested, we humans must develop skills that complement the functions that computers and AI systems perform well. That way, we can work with them instead of competing against them. In part this can mean learning to code. But it also includes cultivating more general skills and attributes that today’s highly connected and always-evolving workplaces demand. Collaboration, continuous education, an entrepreneurial mindset, and most of all, adaptability, have never been more valuable than they are now. In the Industrial Age, operational perfection was the Holy Grail, as increasingly monolithic corporations sought to squeeze greater levels of efficiency out of relatively static manufacturing processes and distribution chains. In the Networked Age we now inhabit, where tighter and more comprehensive feedback loops accelerate change, adaptability and speed are the key strategic advantages. As the pace of change accelerates, entrepreneurs must tap the tools of the Networked Age to accelerate entrepreneurship. We need new products, new companies, new industries – all of which will create new jobs for people. By using tools over thousands of years to leverage our innate instincts for creativity, team-work, and reciprocity, we have exponentially raised our standard of living and continuously re-defined what it means to be human. The tools we have at our disposal now, including robots and AI systems, are more powerful than ever. But the innovation and adaptability that have always made us human are still there too. We have the opportunity to reinvent work again with robots —and forge a new set of jobs through entrepreneurship and ingenuity. _Hoffman is the co-founder of LinkedIn and author of_ The Startup of You ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/question-everything/4030665/reid-hoffman-will-ai-overtake-humans/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/question-everything/4030665/reid-hoffman-will-ai-overtake-humans/"},"headline":"Reid Hoffman: Robots Will Take Our Jobs—But We Will Adapt","datePublished":"2015-09-15T18:00:23.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-02T23:09:07.607Z","description":"We’ll reinvent work and forge a new set of jobs","url":"https://time.com/collections/question-everything/4030665/reid-hoffman-will-ai-overtake-humans/","keywords":["Question Everything"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0e06cd118bfedc54/69886332524fc017b5df475a/question-everything-ai-reid-hoffman.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0e06cd118bfedc54/69886332524fc017b5df475a/question-everything-ai-reid-hoffman.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/question-everything/4030665/reid-hoffman-will-ai-overtake-humans/","name":"Reid Hoffman: Robots Will Take Our Jobs—But We Will Adapt"}}]}] ```