Gates made the comments during an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to promote his new book.
Fallon asked Gates whether AI was going to “take over” and what the downsides and benefits of it were.
Gates explained that “intelligence is rare,” but that artificial intelligence will start to replace great teachers and doctors over the course of the next decade.
The Microsoft founder went on to suggest that many types of jobs will be replaced and that people could only end up working two or three days a week.
“This is a bit scary, it’s completely new territory,” he added.
“Will we still need humans?” asked Fallon.
“Not for most things,” responded Gates, prompting Fallon to hold his hands over his mouth in shock.
After Fallon suggested humans would still be needed for entertainment purposes, like hosting a talk show, Gates concurred.
“Well, we’ll decide. You know, like baseball. We won’t want to watch computers play baseball. So there’ll be some things that we reserve for ourselves. But in terms of making things and moving things and growing food, over time, those will be basically solved problems.”
Apparently, putting potentially billions of people out of work, who will then be completely dependent on the state, is a ‘solved problem’.
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