You know it’s going to be good when an AI executive goes off on a tangent about “hey, what’s a job anyway!” while addressing — or failing to address — the topic of how their tech just might wipe out entire categories of human professions.

Today’s offending party, you’ll be shocked to hear, is OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who talks about job destruction an awful lot, and usually in a pretty mealy-mouthed way.

His latest spiel is no exception. In an interview with Rowan Cheung at OpenAI’s DevDay conference on Wednesday, Altman floated the idea that the work you do today, which might imminently be transformed or eliminated by AI, isn’t “real work.”

The idea was brought up after Cheung invoked his favorite thought experiment of considering how a farmer half a century ago might view our current re

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