That would mean CEOs would share the benefits of automation with employees. They won't. They'll cut 60% of staff and work that 40% full time or more.

and nobody but 10 white guys would be able to afford food

The formerly richest man on the planet believes capitalism will pass the benefits of AI to all of us.

Ha ha

How are these people so fucking out of touch? Or are they just lying?

With Two-Day or even less pay. Aka. certain death.

You’ll also receive two days of pay per week.

God, he's such a fucking idiot.

Yes. Two days per job, three jobs per week to barely survive.

Keyes believed we'd have a 15 hour week by now. These things are not predictable

In an ideal world, yes. Under Capitalism, no.

Hundreds of years ago we toiled in fields for 8+hrs to feed the family and keep a roof over our heads.. since then, with all the technology and advancements to make our lives easier, we still work 8+hrs a day to feed the family and keep a roof over our heads.. I doubt his claims

Bill Gates is Trump's little bitch. He doesn't care about any of us any more than Elon or Trump himself.

AI will replace Jobs

Could be, but I thought Jobs has died?

I get really sick of rich people promising their latest product will mean 4/3/2 day working weeks, and when others parrot this nonsense I just despair.

Leaving aside the dispute over "AI" and it's actual effect on efficiency...

If efficiency savings were all that was needed we would already be there. There's been hundreds of such advances. But all that happens is the wealthy get more wealth. They will always find work for us in those "saved days", and will increase our costs until we have to work those days to survive.

Two days at the 1st job, two days at the 2nd job, and 2 days at the 3rd job.

He was at Bezos' wedding with everyone else...fuck you Bill.

2 day work week....for C-Suite.

So now it's "AI" that should allow us to profit from the efficiency increases you assholes actively siphoned off for yourself for decades??

🙄

CEOs lost their mind at the proposition of the 4 day work week.

They want us poor and starving and unemployed and racist so we are at each others’ throats instead of theirs.

It's just to sell his AI crap. It's like saying AI will save humanity or something, it's just a money/power grab.

no, it'll lead to a 50 hour work week for two days pay.

Why would they have the same number of employees working a 2 day work week instead of having 20% of their workforce working a 5 day work week?

People that think AI will replace most people's jobs are people that don't actually work for a living. Managers, CEOs etc. They see AI taking notes in meetings and spewing out bullshit emails and think "wow AI can do people's jobs!" No, AI can do your job. And yeah, we probably can cut down on management jobs already. But who's going to make that decision?

yes, two 48-hour shifts

do people really think working less is possible under capitalism nowadays?

I want to work less, yes, but we all know he's saying this just to manipulate us into interacting, supporting and using AI more.. probably to boost his networth or something dumb like that.

A 2-day workweek for whom?

And I predicted that Bill Gates is a sack of shit.

I was right, he was wrong

So far it has led to many people being laid off. Meanwhile Greece just pushed for 6 day working weeks with 13 hour work days, was it?

... for him and his friends.

Let's all just pretend Bill didn't repeatedly hang with Epstein after he was convicted.

Meaning your take home pay will be 2/5ths of what it is now.

Two day work week with no pay increase and no social net

...for shareholders and billionaires.

I predict Bill Gates will be dead before we have two day workweeks.

2 days of nothing but eating the rich sounds nice.

About half the time we try to use AI for precise work at my job we end up with hallucinations, completely skipped areas of configs, and low quality bullshit. We'd do much better hiring minimum wage interns to write the stuff. AI is not about to replace anything but commodity work that society thinks has a high tolerance for error and bad decisions, like customer support, teaching, policing, management, or health care. What it should replace is our effing politicians.

Lolol. Yeah right. For who exactly? The ruling class that doesn't do shit already. If it were to go that way then the bottom 90% of will stave and die

Lmao there's no way that'll ever happen. If the greedy capital class can extort more value out of your free time, they will.

Ask him if it is two days work week with full pay and benefits. Yeah I didn't think so. Why give that money to your workers when shareholders could generate more revenue. Fuckers.

Not one mention of UBI or any other real-world solution to this "problem".

I thought this was an interview from like the late 2010s at least, not published today.

That's an insane take given how worker displacement from AI is actually unfolding.

The two day workweek:
- day 1: Monday-Thursday
- day 2: Friday-Saturday

So umm does that mean AI will take your coffee order and make the drink and cash you out? I didn't think so. Manual labor will still be needed 24/7, but now their bosses are AI bots that don't know human connection; oh wait my human bosses never had that ability either. Who the fuck allowed companies the privilege to post new schedules literally the week of or call you in on your days off. We need serious unions and not AI

Yeah because they cracked down on the h1b visas, no more cheap foreign labor for the tech companies..CEO - let’s move to AI.

When does it go from filling the trough (i.e., my email and teams inboxes) with slop to doing something other than writing "write-only" documents with disclaimers about how I have to check them for accuracy?

Seriously, AI is making work worse for me and everyone with whom I work except a couple of pointy-headed managers who think producing incorrect status emails full of emojis is doing a job.

It's like automated enshittification.

How in the world would this lead to any reduction in work days, let alone a 2 day work week? Employers going to more than double everyone's wages out of the goodness of their hearts? Is inflation going to be reversed? Is the government going to pay a universal income? And how does AI make any of that happen? This notion is ridiculous.

Lmao k

I predict bill gates will be dead.

I think it was Buckminster Fuller? And Bertrand Russell? Who made similar predictions. What about the last hundred years had indicated to Mr. Gates that the number of hours worked will change?

More like - Full weeks jobs paid only for two day.