Amazon founder Jeff Bezos said he believes artificial intelligence could generate enough productivity gains to allow Americans to have a three-day workweek or rely on a single-income for the whole household—pushing back against fears that the technology could lead to large-scale job losses for American workers.
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Wild. Meantime his employees don’t get a living wage or bathroom breaks.
Yeah they do. I used to waste so much time in the bathroom there
Except they are free to leave and find another job if they want… this isn’t Communist North Korea.
What sort of an idiot stays in a job they hate.
What he really means is that AI will make it so he and his friends only have to pay real workers 3 days a week, and families will be forced to be single income since there won’t be any jobs
Smoke & mirrors.
What does the general consensus of experts say, not self-serving billionaires or trillionaires.
Now, use your journalists acumen to research the cotton gin.
Lullabies from the billionaire. This is the scheme of concentration of wealth to few people. The fact is ai companies and all companies using ai will never share their wealth. This will bring resentment and revolution to be free from the slavery. First thing people will revolt against is the data centres.