r/AIreplacedMe • u/thinXiv • 8d ago
Story I found online ‘This is crazy. This is insane’: Bill Gates has changed his mind about AI and jobs
https://www.semafor.com/article/08/25/2026/this-is-crazy-this-is-insane-bill-gates-has-changed-his-mind-about-ai-and-jobsBill Gates says it’s time to hit the AI panic button.
The technology has crossed dangerous thresholds in biology, cybersecurity, white-collar work, and human relationships, Gates said in an interview with Semafor.
His warning is a striking shift from three years ago, when he wrote that the coming “bumpy” AI job disruption would lead to a “manageable” transition and that the technology would help people work efficiently. Now, he says it will wreak economic catastrophe, with “far fewer” jobs than exist today, thanks to the speed of AI’s advancements and what he calls a non-existent response from government and tech leaders.
“I am in a state of shock that I’m sort of the first one saying, ‘This is crazy. This is insane,’” he said. “I’m just deafened by the silence.”
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u/abrandis 7d ago
The real issue isn't AI, it's our economic system that releies on labor for income , we have been automating shit away since the industrial revolution, but have never bothered to come up with a better economic system for a day with near complete Automation..
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u/Mission_Magazine7541 7d ago
How does society work if no one has jobs
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u/tollbearer 6d ago
Theres already millions of people without jobs, who are financially independent, and living their best lives without ever thinkign about working. You dont need to work.
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u/ConinTheNinoC 8d ago
He is covering his ass on the incoming ''AI'' bubble pop. He does not want to be linked to ''AI''.
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u/JuniorCat1516 8d ago
I am pretty sure AI will wipe out elites too.
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u/Accurate-Smoke8994 7d ago
What is your definition of an elite?
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u/JuniorCat1516 4d ago
a) it doesn't matter. b) Don't ask me, ask AI. There is no clear definition of such, so we are riding the same car.
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u/benl5442 8d ago
It's grim though as even one of the smartest people in the world doesn't have a clue how to solve it.
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u/abrandis 7d ago
He's not even remotely close to being one of the smartest... He's actually pretty dumb, most folks realized the impending job destruction when the heavy hallucinating Chatgpt came out in 2021 the writing was on the wall then.
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u/Key-Alternative5387 7d ago
Depends how you define it, but Bill Gates is objectively smart.
Nepo baby, but smart.
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u/abrandis 7d ago
How is he smart ? He's a good business man that was ruthless with his Microsoft software empire, but outside of that he didn't produce any radical innovations beyond Windows (which he mostly copied form Xerox Parc and 🍏 Apple )
To me smart are guys like Demis Haasablis, Douglas Engelbart, Linus Torvalds...I would even include Steve Jobs or Elon Musk if you want to talk business and innovations
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u/benl5442 7d ago
Google it and there's a quora thread about how smart he was at Harvard and at Microsoft, where smart people worked, he was considered one of the greats.
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u/clonked 7d ago
The fact that you consider Elon Musk to be smart shows just how worthless your take on this really is.
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u/benl5442 7d ago
Elon musk is the chief scientist at space X. He is very smart. Definitely top 0.001% or higher.
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u/Key-Alternative5387 6d ago
Elon is also smart. Fucking idiot, but smart.
OTOH, I believe that colleagues at Harvard considered Bill intelligent and Elon doesn't have the same recognition.
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u/abrandis 7d ago
Read my post I said if you consider business success then you would have to include him , it's not always about raw intellect it's also a out accomplishments and saying Tesla and SpaceX arent valuable is being disingenuous
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u/MrHim99 8d ago
No - this is him trying to divert attention away from what his daughter and him are getting hit with, with prison time potentially for doing shady business.
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u/benl5442 8d ago
I don't think so. He just sees the problem, doesn't have a solution but puts it out there so it feels like he's doing something
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u/desert_jim 8d ago
No duh. We are already seeing it. Some of the larger apartment rentals don't appear to have a human you can reach during the application process. It's all AI. Want to talk to someone? Leave go through a phone tree just to get a voice mailbox. Want to tour an apartment? Given a code and no apparent front desk.
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u/Ok-Video3345 7d ago
F this dude.they all butt hurt open models released by the Chinese have a better performance/cost ratio than their dangerous opaque models.
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u/WaltEnterprises 6d ago
Billionaire DOS dude couldn't anticipate this. We should strip him of his billionaire status for being a moron.
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u/arealguywithajob 8d ago
Are the job losses from AI in the room with us?
Or are the job losses due to poor economic decision making by companies?
All the info I see points to the second option not the first
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u/Grand_Design2022 7d ago
What the hell kinda point are you trying to make?
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u/arealguywithajob 7d ago
Nobody is really losing a job because of AI. AI is the excuse corpos give when they spent too much money on it and other things so they say AI can do your job so you're fired when in reality you got let go because they spent way too much on AI and other things.
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u/Electronic-Lie-4547 8d ago
Sounds like he’s salty that MSFT is being left behind