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Marc Andreessen said artificial intelligence will spark a \u201cmassive jobs boom,\u201d dismissing fears of widespread job losses as \u201call fake\u201d in a Sunday post on X.<\/p>\n
His optimism contrasts with a March US jobs report<\/a> showing unemployment holding steady at 4.3%, while the number of people unemployed for 27 weeks or more rose by 322,000 over the past year.<\/p>\n Andreesen shared a Business Insider report<\/a> showing a sharp rise in tech job openings in 2026, with more than 67,000 software engineering roles, a twofold increase from 2023, and argued<\/a> that employers had recovered from post-pandemic hiring corrections and the interest rate spike.<\/p>\n \u201cThe \u2018AI job loss\u2019 narratives are all fake,\u201d he wrote<\/a>. \u201cAI = massive ramp in productivity = massive ramp in demand = massive jobs boom. Watch.\u201d<\/p>\n Andreessen is one of Silicon Valley\u2019s most influential investors, a co-founder of Netscape and venture firm Andreessen Horowitz. He is also a major backer of US crypto and AI companies.<\/p>\n On the ground, the reality is somewhat different. On Feb. 26, Jack Dorsey\u2019s Block cut 40% of its staff<\/a> as the company accelerated its use of AI, including experiments with agents to take over parts of middle management.<\/p>\n Related: <\/strong><\/em>Dorsey shares AI-integrated workplace vision weeks after Block\u2019s 40% staff cut<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n On March 19, crypto exchange Crypto.com announced a 12% workforce reduction<\/a> due to AI integrations, warning that companies \u201cthat do not make this pivot immediately will fail.\u201d<\/p>\n AI-driven pivots by companies are also impacting employment. <\/p>\n Oracle reportedly<\/a> cut up to 30,000 jobs recently, citing \u201cbroader organizational change,\u201d as it pushes to build AI data centers.<\/p>\n MARA, which has been repurposing its Bitcoin mining infrastructure for AI, has reportedly<\/a> reduced its staff by 15%.<\/p>\n That backdrop helps explain the online backlash Andreessen received.<\/p>\n \u201cTell that to the average lower middle class American who can\u2019t find a job or the consumer who can\u2019t get decent customer service,\u201d crypto influencer WendyO replied<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Tory Green, co-founder at io.net argued<\/a> Andreessen could be proved right on net job creation, but only if AI tools are broadly accessible and not captured by a handful of platforms.<\/p>\n AI Eye: <\/strong><\/em>9 weirdest AI stories from 2025<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n <\/div>\n Marc Andreessen said artificial intelligence will spark a \u201cmassive jobs boom,\u201d dismissing fears of widespread job losses as \u201call fake\u201d in a Sunday post on X. His optimism contrasts with a March US jobs report showing unemployment holding steady at 4.3%, while the number of people unemployed for 27 weeks or more rose by 322,000 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423615,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[235,203,210,234,231,232,237,238,236,233],"class_list":["post-423614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blockchain","tag-bitcoin","tag-crypto-currency","tag-elon-musk","tag-ethereum","tag-hyperledger","tag-ibm","tag-mining","tag-nodes","tag-spacex","tag-tesla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":423616,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423614\/revisions\/423616"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Job losses in tech pile up<\/h2>\n
Andreessen\u2019s comments meet with skepticism<\/h2>\n