Bill Gates Predicts AI Will Replace Jobs and Lead to a Two-Day Workweek
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That would mean CEOs would share the benefits of automation with employees. They won't. They'll cut 60% of staff and work that 40% full time or more.
They'll work only 20% staff on hefty overtime till breakdown.
Spot on.
They'll just fill the other 3 days with more work. Because you have all that extra time now.
and nobody but 10 white guys would be able to afford food
What if we just ate those 10 white guys?
NO WAR BUT CLASS WAR
Come now, you can be a subsistence tech worker!
If they didn't want to suffer the lack of necessities, they could have learned to trillionaire.
Ah yes only rich white guys are the problem and billionaires with other skin color are all benevolent.
Genuinely asking because I can’t think of any what billionaires aren’t white?
The main point is that we shouldn't let race divide us in a class war.
Nvidia's CEO is definitely in the top ten. Also, there's a reason Kushner is going to the
IraniansSaudis to buy EA.Ah can’t believe I forgot about Jensen
Yeah. Also, Jack Ma, who owns Alibaba.
hes been censured by the ccp a while ago.
Still a Billionaire.
Googles CEO is Indian and a Billionaire.
Satya Nadella (CEO of Microsoft) has almost a billion dollars.
The family that owns Samsung and basically run the South Korean economy.
edit: Also Masayoshi Son who has invested heavily in OpenAI with his Softbank Vision Fund
and Rhianna, Oprah, and Selena Gomez to name a few celebrities.
Selena is a billionaire? Damn
White billionaires are the majority, but there's really no lack of non-white ones.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_billionaires
The formerly richest man on the planet believes capitalism will pass the benefits of AI to all of us.
Ha ha
I remember when Democrats had almost everyone convinced that he was an example of a good billionaire.
He just wants to trickle on us!
How are they so fucking dumb?
They seek shelter in the belief to be benevolent, for otherwise they would see themselves as the evil they are.
The older they get, to more they realize that their money won't save them. They want to be immortal, they want to have a legacy, they want to be remembered kindly.
Of course there's also some who know they're evil and are OK with it. But even those are not immune from seeking something... higher. See Thiel's antics with the antichrist.
How are these people so fucking out of touch? Or are they just lying?
2 options,
A) they are intentionally making shit up because it makes them rich.
B) investors prop up delusional idiots who say shit like that for profit
not much difference in either case
With Two-Day or even less pay. Aka. certain death.
Don't worry, you'll have 4 different jobs!
Work 2 days per job, with overlap, part time hours, no benefits, no breaks, no time for revolutions
That last part is key
2-day work week, minimum wage $9.50/hr
You’ll also receive two days of pay per week.
Yes. Two days per job, three jobs per week to barely survive.
It'll be really shitty jobs, too... And the grand majority will only last as long as it takes to roll out the cheap robotics.
They're going to replace nearly everyone. It's so goddamn obvious. First, the good jobs will be taken, though. We're there now. Right now.
Uniquely American
God, he's such a fucking idiot.
I think you mean “God, 27% of his wealth is still invested in a company that is all in on AI and he needs to offload it before the bubble pops”. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bill-gates-most-48-billion-190902092.html
Fair point.
it make sense why sam altman and him convenient said the same thing at the same time.
Keyes believed we'd have a 15 hour week by now. These things are not predictable
My understanding is that Keynes failed to account for the growth in consumerism. Essentially we could probably have a 15 hour work week but we wouldn't have shiny smartphones.
Hundreds of years ago we toiled in fields for 8+hrs to feed the family and keep a roof over our heads.. since then, with all the technology and advancements to make our lives easier, we still work 8+hrs a day to feed the family and keep a roof over our heads.. I doubt his claims
Just add some cash to the AI, please bro. It will give you a 2 day workweek bro, I swear. It will bring back your loved ones bro. Just add the cash bro.
With all this extra work, we are not only bleeding ourselves dry but also destroying our environment just to increase stock prices
Yes, but you see, we now have billionaires, and soon trillionaires, while we still have to work 8+hrs a day to feed the family and keep a roof over our heads. So... progress.
In an ideal world, yes. Under Capitalism, no.
Bill Gates is Trump's little bitch. He doesn't care about any of us any more than Elon or Trump himself.
Couldn't have said it better myself.
Could be, but I thought Jobs has died?
that's why they want to replace him with AI built from everything he ever said
Golly my sister is trying to vibe code an ai agent to basically do the same thing. I don't want to laugh in her face but I think its one of her dumbest ideas, she is kinda addicted AI bots. And she spiraling down a rabbit hole
I get really sick of rich people promising their latest product will mean 4/3/2 day working weeks, and when others parrot this nonsense I just despair.
Leaving aside the dispute over "AI" and it's actual effect on efficiency...
If efficiency savings were all that was needed we would already be there. There's been hundreds of such advances. But all that happens is the wealthy get more wealth. They will always find work for us in those "saved days", and will increase our costs until we have to work those days to survive.
Exactly. A reduced work week is a social policy, meaning we'll only achieve it through focused political action.
But sadly there's no labor party in the US, and the parties we do have are both aggressively hostile to any sort of workplace reforms, so... yeah
richard branson was the first guy to say it, then the other started parroting the meaningless drivel.
Two days at the 1st job, two days at the 2nd job, and 2 days at the 3rd job.
He was at Bezos' wedding with everyone else...fuck you Bill.
2 day work week....for C-Suite.
That's their schedule now...
So now it's "AI" that should allow us to profit from the efficiency increases you assholes actively siphoned off for yourself for decades??
🙄
CEOs lost their mind at the proposition of the 4 day work week.
They want us poor and starving and unemployed and racist so we are at each others’ throats instead of theirs.
It's just to sell his AI crap. It's like saying AI will save humanity or something, it's just a money/power grab.
no, it'll lead to a 50 hour work week for two days pay.
Why would they have the same number of employees working a 2 day work week instead of having 20% of their workforce working a 5 day work week?
People that think AI will replace most people's jobs are people that don't actually work for a living. Managers, CEOs etc. They see AI taking notes in meetings and spewing out bullshit emails and think "wow AI can do people's jobs!" No, AI can do your job. And yeah, we probably can cut down on management jobs already. But who's going to make that decision?
yes, two 48-hour shifts
do people really think working less is possible under capitalism nowadays?
Let's all just pretend Bill didn't repeatedly hang with Epstein after he was convicted.
Don't forget, fixing all the shit the AI broke.
A 2-day workweek for whom?
And I predicted that Bill Gates is a sack of shit.
I was right, he was wrong
So far it has led to many people being laid off. Meanwhile Greece just pushed for 6 day working weeks with 13 hour work days, was it?
I want to work less, yes, but we all know he's saying this just to manipulate us into interacting, supporting and using AI more.. probably to boost his networth or something dumb like that.
... for him and his friends.
Him and his friends don't work.
Two day work week with no pay increase and no social net
You can always train AI to make up the difference. /s
Big brain move
Meaning your take home pay will be 2/5ths of what it is now.
...for shareholders and billionaires.
I predict Bill Gates will be dead before we have two day workweeks.
About half the time we try to use AI for precise work at my job we end up with hallucinations, completely skipped areas of configs, and low quality bullshit. We'd do much better hiring minimum wage interns to write the stuff. AI is not about to replace anything but commodity work that society thinks has a high tolerance for error and bad decisions, like customer support, teaching, policing, management, or health care. What it should replace is our effing politicians.
2 days of nothing but eating the rich sounds nice.
Let's round it down to one day, a year. And call it the Purge
Ask him if it is two days work week with full pay and benefits. Yeah I didn't think so. Why give that money to your workers when shareholders could generate more revenue. Fuckers.
Lmao there's no way that'll ever happen. If the greedy capital class can extort more value out of your free time, they will.
Not one mention of UBI or any other real-world solution to this "problem".
Lolol. Yeah right. For who exactly? The ruling class that doesn't do shit already. If it were to go that way then the bottom 90% of will stave and die
I thought this was an interview from like the late 2010s at least, not published today.
That's an insane take given how worker displacement from AI is actually unfolding.
The two day workweek:
- day 1: Monday-Thursday
- day 2: Friday-Saturday
So umm does that mean AI will take your coffee order and make the drink and cash you out? I didn't think so. Manual labor will still be needed 24/7, but now their bosses are AI bots that don't know human connection; oh wait my human bosses never had that ability either. Who the fuck allowed companies the privilege to post new schedules literally the week of or call you in on your days off. We need serious unions and not AI
The coffee analogy is probably not a good one. The generations that grow up with enshittified tech bullshit are complete shutins. They'll be happy enough with a machine making their coffee. AI isn't even necessarily involved here.
But people still have to build these machines. They have to maintain them. Someone has to grow, harvest, wash and roast the beans. Some of that can probably be done by machines, but not all of it.
The thing is, even if AI replaces everyone, there'll be no more consumers able to buy things anymore. There literally won't be an economy anymore. I fail to see how that helps capitalists. What is the plan here? Billionaires are a bunch of fucking weirdos, all of them.
Yeah because they cracked down on the h1b visas, no more cheap foreign labor for the tech companies..CEO - let’s move to AI.
and they "fired" laid off too many current tech employees/citizens too.
When does it go from filling the trough (i.e., my email and teams inboxes) with slop to doing something other than writing "write-only" documents with disclaimers about how I have to check them for accuracy?
Seriously, AI is making work worse for me and everyone with whom I work except a couple of pointy-headed managers who think producing incorrect status emails full of emojis is doing a job.
It's like automated enshittification.
How in the world would this lead to any reduction in work days, let alone a 2 day work week? Employers going to more than double everyone's wages out of the goodness of their hearts? Is inflation going to be reversed? Is the government going to pay a universal income? And how does AI make any of that happen? This notion is ridiculous.
I think it was Buckminster Fuller? And Bertrand Russell? Who made similar predictions. What about the last hundred years had indicated to Mr. Gates that the number of hours worked will change?
“There are men who, through ownership of land, are able to make others pay for the privilege of being allowed to exist and to work. These landowners are idle, and I might therefore be expected to praise them. Unfortunately, their idleness is only rendered possible by the industry of others; indeed their desire for comfortable idleness is historically the source of the whole gospel of work. The last thing they have ever wished is that others should follow their example.” ― Bertrand Russell
Lmao k
I predict bill gates will be dead.
he also associated with epstein too, trying to deflect attention away from himself.
More like - Full weeks jobs paid only for two day.