{"id":110651,"date":"2025-08-01T16:06:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T16:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/110651\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T16:06:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T16:06:11","slug":"bill-gates-says-ai-is-moving-at-a-speed-that-surprises-even-him-and-he-says-the-experts-cant-tell-if-itll-replace-humans-in-one-year-or-ten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/110651\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates says AI is moving at a speed that “surprises” even him\u2014and he says the experts can’t tell if it’ll replace humans in one year or ten"},"content":{"rendered":"

Job seekers are scrambling to figure out when AI will come for their jobs\u2014but even the experts<\/a> can\u2019t agree on a timeline. Now, Bill Gates is sounding the alarm: It could all happen so fast, workers won\u2019t even have time to catch up.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe question is, has it come so fast that you don\u2019t have time to adjust to it?\u201d Bill Gates just said in an interview with CNN<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Microsoft cofounder noted that AI is already capable of taking over administrative roles like telesales, but it\u2019s still falling short when it comes to more complex tasks\u2014and even he\u2019s dumbfounded by just how quickly it\u2019s closing the gap.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s improving at a rate that surprises me,\u201d the tech pioneer, worth $122<\/strong><\/a> billion, said in the interview, while pointing to its deep research capability as an example.<\/p>\n

\u201cA few times a day, I take some complex question, and just for fun, I see AI does an awfully good job gathering all the materials, and summarizing what I need to know.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

In just a few years, the technology has gone from writing emails to generating functional code. That\u2019s why no one can pin down when exactly the tipping point will come, Gates added.<\/p>\n

\u201cAI today can replace human work, the most complex coding tasks, [but] it\u2019s not able to do [it] yet. And people in the field disagree: is that within the next year or two, or is it more like ten years away?\u201d<\/p>\n

Tech leaders agree that AI will be as good as human workers<\/p>\n

Fellow business leaders<\/a> have been candid that AI will be just as capable as, or even more advanced than, most human workers <\/strong>in the next few years.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Anthropic CEO <\/a>Dario<\/a> Amodei predicted that up to 50% of entry-level white collar jobs could be replaced by AI within 5 years.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cMost of them are unaware that this is about to happen,\u201d Amodei<\/a> warned in an interview with Axios. \u201cIt sounds crazy, and people just don\u2019t believe it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Amazon<\/a> CEO Andy Jassy also told employees<\/a> that within the next few years, AI would reduce some corporate roles, like customer service representatives and software developers. And over at Meta<\/a>, its CEO Mark Zuckerberg<\/a> is already getting started on automating some of his employees\u2019 jobs\u2014the tech billionaire announced that the company is building an \u201cAI engineer\u201d to help with coding tasks.<\/p>\n

That shift isn\u2019t unique to just tech roles. IBM <\/a>cut around 8,000 jobs this May in HR and other departments, as the tools take over routine administrative tasks. Instead, the company is hiring<\/a> more engineers and salespeople, signaling a transition to more roles that require creativity and complex decision-making.<\/p>\n

AI is improving productivity, Bill Gates says<\/p>\n

As more companies<\/a> pull back on hiring and training early job seekers, they are also shrinking the talent pool of future leaders. The jobs that have historically served as stepping stones for entry-level workers<\/a> are under threat.\u00a0<\/p>\n

With recent college grads struggling to land entry-level jobs<\/a>, Gates weighed in on growing fears that AI is taking opportunities from young workers. He argued that rising productivity should free people\u2019s time to do more of the other things they enjoy\u2014from side hustles to vacations.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you improve productivity, you can make more [jobs],\u201d Gates said.\u00a0 \u201cIt means you can free up these people to have smaller class sizes or have longer vacations or help to do more, so it\u2019s not a bad thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

New research<\/a> echoes that already, 4 in 10 say it has provided better work-life balance, reduced stress, and improved decision-making.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Job seekers are scrambling to figure out when AI will come for their jobs\u2014but even the experts can\u2019t…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":110652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[691,738,243,244,2563,17900,16778,16720,3991,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-110651","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-bill-gates","11":"tag-billionaires","12":"tag-career","13":"tag-career-advice","14":"tag-careers","15":"tag-colleges-and-universities","16":"tag-gen-z","17":"tag-technology","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114954370036683429","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}