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Sees Opportunities and Risks of Artificial Intelligence: Bill Gates
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Microsoft founder Bill Gates foresees a future in which humanity will only work three days a week. That's what the billionaire said in the new episode of the podcast "What Now?" by host and comedian Trevor Noah.
There may come a time when people "don't have to work as hard anymore," Gates said in response to Noah's question about the threat to jobs posed by AI. If one day you have a society where you only have to work three days a week, that's probably all right." Gates predicted that there could be a world in which "machines can produce all food and other things." People would no longer have to work five days a week to earn a living.
Gates had only pointed out the risks of artificial intelligence in a post on his blog in July. In it, he wrote, among other things, that he "does not believe that the impact of AI will be as dramatic as that of the industrial revolution, but it will certainly be as great as the adoption of the PC."
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