Creepy Bill Gates took a break from preying on female interns to talk about how AI will revolutionize the way we work and live. According to Gates, we all live a life of luxury where machines are in charge of food production and we only have to work a few days a week.
Business Insider Reports In a recent episode of Trevor Noah What next? During a podcast, billionaire and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates shared his thoughts on the potential impact of artificial intelligence on the future of work. As AI technology advances, he suggested it could pave the way for a society where people only need to work three days a week to earn a livable wage.
During the podcast, Noah asked about the potential threat that AI poses to jobs, to which Gates replied by imagining a future in which machines are able to take on many tasks, such as food production and manufacturing, reducing the number of hours people work. “If we end up with a society where we only have to work three days a week, that’s probably fine,” Gates said.
While Gates acknowledges the transformative power of AI, he has also been vocal about the risks associated with its misuse. In a sweeping blog post published in July, he compared AI’s impact to the introduction of the personal computer. “Word processing software didn’t eliminate office work, but it changed it forever,” Gates wrote. “Employers and employees had to adapt, and they did.”
Gates isn’t the only one predicting a shorter workweek. JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon also sees a future where advances in AI will allow the next generation of workers to work just 3.5 days a week. “Thanks to technology, our kids are going to live to be 100, they’re going to live without cancer, and they’re probably going to work 3.5 days a week,” Dimon said in an October interview with Bloomberg.
Breitbart News recently reported that a new book calls Gates a “kid in a candy store” when it comes to working with young female interns at Microsoft and the Gates Foundation.
According to Das, Gates was known to flirt with women, pursue them and even make unwanted advances to Microsoft employees. The book alleges that young interns at the Gates Foundation were put in uncomfortable positions when Gates made advances, with one colleague even scolding someone for letting a 22-year-old intern go alone to Gates’ office. Das writes that Gates’ approaches to women were “clumsy rather than predatory” and that while he didn’t “exploit” women or ask them for sex in exchange for career advancement, he did display “a certain naivety in his interactions with women that led him to mistake passionate conversation for mutual interest.”
The book also reveals that Gates had a strange arrangement with his wife: Once a year, Gates could go alone to his ex-girlfriend Ann Winblad’s North Carolina vacation home for a weekend. The arrangement reportedly continued even after Gates married Melinda. Das claims that Gates had a chance to marry Winblad before he married Melinda, but that he ruined the chance by spending the entire weekend at her vacation home and reading a biography of Henry Ford, despite Winblad’s attempts to woo Gates.
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Lucas Nolan is a reporter for Breitbart News covering free speech and online censorship.
