Bill Gates says artificial intelligence could help humanity achieve a 3-day work week

Businessman and philanthropist Bill Gates has argued that the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the workplace could make a three-day workweek possible. Microsoft co-founder Trevor Noah’s What Now? In his interview on the program, he talked about the possible benefits of this technology for humanity.

According to Gates, we will eventually reach a point where “You won’t have to work so hard”case “machines can make all the food and other things”. The result is a week with three working days “It’ll probably be okay”.

Currently some countries We are already testing a week with four business daysbut this is still an experiment limited to certain locations. Microsoft, of which Gates has been the CEO for years, is also one of those interested in these tests and is currently participating in these tests.

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Later in the interview, the former CEO compared the use of chatbots and automated systems to the computer itself, which he helped popularize with the launch of Windows decades ago.

“I don’t think AI will have as dramatic an impact as the Industrial Revolution, but it will certainly be as big as the introduction of the personal computer,” Gates says.

He points to word processing software and text editors as examples of a machine that didn’t end office work but changed it forever. “Employees and employers had to adapt, and they did,” he comments.

The billionaire has previously advocated the use of artificial intelligence in various fields and downplayed concerns such as the disappearance of jobs. Instead, Gates talks about possible social benefits without even explaining how it’s possible to work so little and “earn a living wage.”

The businessman has previously stated that pausing the development of artificial intelligence will not solve the problems in this field and that ChatGPT is the “biggest technological advance in decades”.

On the other hand, the businessman’s views do not please another technology billionaire, Elon Musk of Tesla and Twitter/X. In one of several indirect exchanges between the two, the businessman noted that his rival’s knowledge of artificial intelligence was “limited.”