Listen "Bill Gates: AI Concerns, $100B Pledge, and 3 Safe Jobs Amid Automation Surge"
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Bill Gates BioSnap a weekly updated Biography.Bill Gates has been making waves this week with stark warnings about artificial intelligence's rapid advancement and its impact on the workforce. Speaking to CNN, the Microsoft cofounder revealed he tests AI multiple times daily with increasingly complex questions and admits he's astonished by how quickly the technology is evolving. According to India Blooms, Gates said the responses he receives are often eerily comprehensive, and he's genuinely concerned about whether society has enough time to adjust to these changes.The timing of his comments is particularly noteworthy given recent industry developments. IBM has already eliminated eight thousand HR positions due to automation, while Meta's Mark Zuckerberg is developing an AI-powered engineer. Goldman Sachs researchers estimate that automation could replace the equivalent of three hundred million full-time jobs worldwide. Despite this alarming forecast, Gates identified three professions he believes remain relatively safe for now: software developers, energy sector workers, and biologists. He argues that AI still needs people to build AI and fix its mistakes, complex energy systems require human oversight, and scientific progress still depends on human intuition and curiosity.But Gates isn't just sounding alarms. He's putting his money where his mouth is on global health initiatives. The Gates Foundation recently announced it will pledge nine hundred twelve million dollars to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, as reported by KYMA. This follows an earlier announcement that the foundation will spend two point five billion dollars by twenty thirty on women's health, addressing conditions from preeclampsia to menopause that Gates says have been neglected for too long.Perhaps most intriguingly, Fortune magazine confirmed earlier reports that Gates plans to distribute virtually all of his remaining wealth, approximately one hundred billion dollars, to the Gates Foundation over the next twenty years before shuttering the foundation for good on December thirty first, twenty forty five. This represents the largest philanthropic commitment in modern history and will double the speed of the foundation's work to cure preventable diseases affecting the poor around the world.Get the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOtaThis content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI