Bill Gates: AI Implementation to Enable Three-Day Working Week for People

One of the founders of Microsoft, billionaire Bill Gates believes that the development of artificial intelligence will allow humanity to work three days a week. He stated this in an interview on Spotify, Business Insider reports.

During the conversation, the podcast host, comedian Trevor Noah, asked whether the development of artificial intelligence threatens jobs. In response, Gates said that one day there may come a time when people "don't have to work as hard". He suggested that there will be a world in which "machines produce all the food and everything else".

"If you end up with a society where you only have to work three days a week, then I guess that's OK," Gates said.

According to Business Insider, in July, Gates said in his blog that with the development of AI, some workers will need support and retraining, and this should be done by governments and companies. "I don't think the impact of AI will be as significant as the Industrial Revolution, but it will certainly be as big as the advent of the personal computer," the Microsoft founder said at the time.

In October, Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Financial Corporation, also said that the working week would be reduced with the development of artificial intelligence. "Your children will live to be 100 years old and cancer-free thanks to technology, and they will likely work three and a half days a week," he said in an interview with Bloomberg.

Various public opinion polls have shown that many people are afraid of being fired or having their salaries reduced because of artificial intelligence. For example, in the US, 79% of employees surveyed said they feared their salaries would be reduced due to AI, with 82% of millennials reporting such fears, according to a survey conducted in April 2023.

In March 2023, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, and more than a thousand experts signed an open letter calling for the development of advanced artificial intelligence to be halted for at least six months until common security protocols are in place. Bill Gates refused to support them, saying that such calls "will not solve the problem" and that AI will benefit humanity.

As The Gaze previously reported, the American company OpenAI, the developer of the popular ChatGPT chatbot, plans to receive additional funding from Microsoft to create universal artificial intelligence.