Bill Gates on AI's Impact: 'Be Curious, Read, and Use the Latest Tools'

Microsoft's co-founder says AI is coming for our jobs, but it's difficult to determine when these drastic changes will take place.

Last week, pending OpenAI's much-anticipated GPT-5 model, CEO Sam Altman indicated that he was scared of the creation while comparing it to the development of The Manhattan Project. Interestingly, the executive had previously promised with a high degree of scientific certainty that GPT-5 will be smarter than GPT-4 (which he admitted "kind of sucks").

Altman attributed his fear to the next-gen technology outpacing oversight, which remains a major concern for most people aside from job security and privacy. Admittedly, generative AI is evolving at a neck-breaking speed, making it difficult to keep track of.

More recently, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates shared some interesting insights about the trajectory of the cutting-edge technology and what the future could potentially look like in terms of job security. Speaking in an interview with CNN's Fareed Zakaria, the philanthropic billionaire indicated that AI is rapidly evolving and could potentially take over jobs from professionals at a moment's notice, leaving them with little to no time to adjust to the drastic changes (via Fortune).

Perhaps more concerning, the executive indicated that AI has already evolved to an extent that it can fully augment administrative-related jobs like telesales. He echoed similar sentiments about coding, but limited his observations to simple programming tasks. He claimed that AI isn't at a level where it can completely take over coding from humans.

Interestingly, Gates' comments about AI's potential effects on the job market come after he'd previously claimed that the technology will replace humans for most things, save for specific tasks that we'd opt to preserve for ourselves. He joked that no one would like to watch computers play baseball.

Bill Gates also listed three professionals that he thinks might survive the AI revolution: energy experts, biologists, and coders. Contrary to popular opinion in the tech world, the executive says coding is too complex for AI to fully replace humans. The profession still requires the human touch to easily identify errors. He also indicated that the cutting-edge technology can't match a human's creativity in the field. He claimed that the profession will remain 100% human, even 100 years from now.

“It’s improving at a rate that surprises me,” indicated Bill Gates while talking about how rapidly AI is advancing. He admitted that he often leverages deep research to find answers for complex queries "just for fun." He continues, "I see AI does an awfully good job gathering all the materials, and summarizing what I need to know.”