{"id":87496,"date":"2023-11-24T18:32:23","date_gmt":"2023-11-24T16:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=87496"},"modified":"2025-09-13T12:10:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T09:10:52","slug":"bill-gates-ai-development-could-shorten-the-workweek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/bill-gates-ai-development-could-shorten-the-workweek\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates: AI development could shorten the workweek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The development of artificial intelligence in the long run could shorten the workweek to three days. In a What Now? podcast, <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/5WyKalyhN5XAr1mIqG4czh\">\u0437\u0430\u044f\u0432\u0438\u043b<\/a> billionaire and Microsoft founder Bill Gates.<\/p>\n<p>In February, American experts <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/experts-warn-that-ai-will-destroy-jobs-and-widen-inequality\">conceded<\/a> that AI development will destroy jobs and increase wealth inequality. According to a study by the Swedish Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation, IFAU, in the near future technology will replace human specialists in about 30 common professions.<\/p>\n<p>Answering whether AI development threatens jobs, Gates conceded that there will come a time when people &#8220;do not have to work so much.&#8221; He said that eventually there could be a world where &#8220;machines can produce all the food and more.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;If ultimately you end up in a society where you have to work only three days a week, that would probably be normal,&#8221; noted the billionaire.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier, Gates <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/bill-gates-criticises-idea-of-pausing-ai-research\">criticised<\/a> the idea of suspending research into large language models and called <span data-descr=\"a series of large language models developed by OpenAI\" class=\"old_tooltip\">GPT<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/bill-gates-says-gpt-is-the-most-important-breakthrough-since-the-graphical-user-interface-in-1980\">the most revolutionary achievement<\/a> in technology since 1980.<\/p>\n<p>As reported in May, Microsoft co-founder <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/bill-gates-predicts-the-death-of-google-and-amazon-because-of-ai\">predicted<\/a> the emergence of digital AI agents that will radically change user behaviour online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The development of artificial intelligence could shorten the workweek to three days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[438,2107,1138],"class_list":["post-87496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-bill-gates","tag-opinions"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"51","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87498,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87496\/revisions\/87498"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}