Bill Gates warns of massive job losses due to artificial intelligence More and more people will lose their jobs due to artificial intelligence, warns Microsoft founder Bill Gates in an interview with the Observer. Companies, he says, operate according to the wrong principle: "Hire robots, fire people and don't look back." The age of artificial intelligence is an "evolutionary event" in which humans are no longer the smartest creatures on the planet and soon almost all professional skills may be replaced by artificial intelligence. To mitigate the impact, governments must find new sources of revenue and finance retraining. Gates warns that the funds for social security may decrease despite the growing prosperity, so he supports a tax on the use of artificial intelligence, like a "symbolic tax".

Bill Gates warns of massive job losses due to artificial intelligence More and more people will lose their jobs due to artificial intelligence, warns Microsoft founder Bill Gates in an interview with the Observer. Companies, he says, operate according to the wrong principle: "Hire robots, fire people and don't look back." The age of artificial intelligence is an "evolutionary event" in which humans are no longer the smartest creatures on the planet and soon almost all professional skills may be replaced by artificial intelligence. To mitigate the impact, governments must find new sources of revenue and finance retraining. Gates warns that the funds for social security may decrease despite the growing prosperity, so he supports a tax on the use of artificial intelligence, like a "symbolic tax".