Bill Gates now says just four jobs will survive AI takeover
econews. AI is already leading to people losing their jobs as companies flock to automation in the divine search for efficiency. In the United Kingdom, for instance, a study by investment bank Morgan Stanley, per Bloomberg, found that AI had resulted in net job losses last year, down eight percent and the highest rates among leading world economies.
Bill Gates, however, has now added a fourth job that could outlast AI to his list of three.
Bill Gates is a technology pioneer, so his thoughts on any subject involving computers and code carry a lot of weight.
According to the Economic Times, Gates named coders - who'd have thought the people making AI would make sure it doesn't come for them?! - biologists and energy workers as three professions that will still be required in the age of automation, earlier this year.
Now, however, he has suggested that professional athletes will not be replaced by AI, either.
During a separate appearance on Jimmy Fallon, Gates said: "You know, like baseball. We won't want to watch computers play baseball."
Harry Kane can rest easy, safe in the knowledge that the robot who kicked that child in China isn't coming for his spot in the England side. Though it might have done better with that chance against Ghana.
However, when Fallon asked Gates 'will we still need humans?' he offered a chilling answer, replying: "Not for most things - we'll decide."
Though he did go on to clarify that some actions will remain human-driven, though not many by the sounds of it.
He added: "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."
