Friday Charts: Will Natural Intelligence Keep Us Employed?
Bill Gates predicts a seismic shift in the labor market within the next decade, where AI will render human expertise obsolete in most fields. "We’re entering an era of ’free intelligence,’" he asserts, where top-tier professionals—from doctors to teachers—will be algorithms. The transition, Gates warns, is happening at an unprecedented pace with "no upper bound."
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt amplifies the urgency, forecasting AI will displace the majority of programmers within a year. Artificial general intelligence, he suggests, could emerge within five years—a development that would redefine value creation across industries.