BILL GATES: NOBODY IS GETTING READY FOR WHAT AI WILL DO TO WORK
Bill Gates writes that the transition to Artificial Intelligence will be one of the most turbulent periods in human history. And not because the technology will get something wrong, but because it arrives before anyone has decided what to do with it.
He puts it in a new essay, and it’s the co-founder of Microsoft saying it, not some guy who’s scared of computers. He says he doesn’t see enough evidence that political leaders, experts and communities are dealing properly with the consequences of what’s coming.
Not that they don’t see them. That they’re not taking them seriously enough. And the list of what he does see is worrying.
Workers replaced across plenty of sectors of the economy. Fewer hires for anyone entering the job market now. Governments forced to rethink work, education and social protection from scratch.
He says this thing can become the greatest equalizer ever invented, or the worst source of injustice. Both roads are open. What changes is only who decides, and when.
What he asks for is new national bodies and international institutions to coordinate how governments respond. We know that in international institutions a new one takes years to build, but in the meantime we can help the current institutions understand the change happening.
I work for governments to understand what is happening, and some governments, like for example Italy, are working in the right direction in my opinion.
Anyway, while we wait for the body, the piece that breaks first is the one at the bottom: entry-level positions. The jobs where you learn the trade by getting it wrong before you get good.
Take those away and you don’t lose a job anymore, you lose the way people become capable. And that’s why education is on his list of things to rewrite. What do you think?
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