American businessman Bill Gates appeared in an interview in favor of the USA this Tuesday. three-day work week, something that could be possible thanks to artificial intelligence (AI), while also predicting that the technology in question will have a smaller impact than the industrial revolution but a similar impact to the advent of the computer.
“I don’t think the impact of artificial intelligence will be as disruptive as the industrial revolution. “But drawing an analogy to word processors, which did not put an end to office work but rather “changed it forever,” will undoubtedly be as big as the introduction of PCs, he said.
That’s why Microsoft’s co-founder stated that the advent of a three-day workweek facilitated by artificial intelligence would be a success for society as a whole. machines handled routine tasks and to produce “food and materials” and for workers to have more free time without reducing productivity.
In this sense, Gates claimed last February that artificial intelligence has the potential to “change the labor market” and guaranteed: “In the distant future, we will have to work less than we do today.”