Vinod Khosla has little patience for critics of OpenAI or the artificial-intelligence technology it’s helping promulgate.

An early investor in the San Francisco-based firm that’s one of the nascent industry’s leaders, the prominent Silicon Valley venture capitalist said he envisions big things for the company and a potential AI-powered utopia for society — if only the critics and activists will get out of the way.

In a fireside chat at TechCrunch’s Disrupt 2025 conference at San Francisco Moscone Center Tuesday, Khosla argued that by 2040, education, health care and legal services will all be free AI-powered services. Drawing on a kind of manifesto he wrote last year, he said that as long as policymakers put in place policies that redistribute the vast amounts of wealth he expects will

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