Future of Work: AI, Health, and Climate Challenges

The future demands collaboration with AI to reshape work, education, and global health priorities.

### Embracing AI and Global Challenges: A Vision for the Future
* 🤖  The importance of working well with AI is now **more crucial than ever**, surpassing traditional skills like **Excel or internet literacy**.
* 💬  In the future, discussions may revolve around **reduced work hours**, raising questions about how society will **adapt to this shift**.
* 📚  The episode highlights both the **benefits of AI over the next 10-20 years** and the need to **rethink how we allocate time** when work becomes less scarce.
* 👩‍⚕️  There are significant shortages of essential professions like teachers and doctors, necessitating a **reevaluation of how we care for vulnerable populations**, including the elderly.
* 🎨  As we embrace automation, we must determine which roles should remain **human-centric**, particularly in areas like **art and social activities**.
* 🌍  Addressing climate change requires a commitment to **reducing hydrocarbons**, with initiatives like the IRA bill promoting **new technologies to advance energy solutions**.
* 💡  While activists push for urgent action, there's a sense of **progress that should inspire hope**, even as challenges remain in meeting climate goals.
* 🦠  Bill Gates expresses a strong desire to **eradicate malaria**, emphasizing the need for global health issues to **gain visibility and support**, especially given the **staggering 500,000 child deaths each year**.

this is a show about our future. The ability to work well with AI and take advantage of it is now, you know, more important than understanding Excel or the internet. Crafted text to my son using jenz slang, y famam, what's good, how you vibing? The conversation that a generation from now, we're not going to have to work as much. It's great that that's been started because that's not, you know, for technologists to understand better than anyone else, you know, that really gets to the heart of, you know, religious values, philosophical values, and it's kind of a Nirvana, but are we going to manage it well, uh, and how quickly does it come? At a certain point, AI will be good enough to build a better AI, so AI builds a better AI, which builds a better, build better, build better. This episode talks both about the huge benefits that for the next 10-20 years will be the dominant theme, but then also about how we have to rethink, you know, how time should be used when work isn't in such

short supply that discussion about if we can have enough teachers and doctors where you know we have incredible shortages even in rich countries. Think of things like mental health. It's really an amazing thing that you deal with those shortages and you think, Okay, how do we treat old people better, and what should the class size be? Can we make it be, you know, 15 or 10? And, Okay, what things do we reserve for humans? You know, we don't want to watch robots play baseball. So, you know, what is that boundary where you say, Okay, whatever the machines can do is great, and these other things, you know, perhaps art, very social activities, innate things. Where do we keep those jobs? It's getting hard to write science fiction. There's always been conspiracy theories. We underestimate how creative Americans are. Bill Gates is part of a reptilian race that includes Tom Hanks and Lady Gaga. You know, I think every country is struggling to find that boundary. The US is a tough one because, you know, we have the notion of the First

Amendment and so what what are the exceptions you know like yelling fire in a theater you know uh and because you're anonymous online you know it it it can be worse. I do think over time you know with things like deep fakes most of the time you're online you're going to want to be in an environment where that people are truly identified that is they're connected to a real world identity that you trust instead of just people saying whatever they want. And so the idea of Providence who sent me this email was that really them you know we're going to have to have systems and behaviors that we more aware of okay who who says that who who created this. We have to give up hydrocarbons almost entirely. I have this group breakthrough energy that was very involved in the What's called the IRA bill in the United States that put in tax credits you know for existing and new technologies to accelerate their deployment and we're consulted as an expert on a okay what's the policy to get the grid advanced.

what's the policy to have permitting not slow these things down? You know, how does hydrogen come into this? And so, we're a resource, including having lots of philanthropic funds from me and other donors on the policies that drive this forward. We're not meeting the activists' high expectations, including staying below the 1.5°. We are making enough progress that people should not despair. That is, we need to keep working on this, and yes, we're going to have some ill effects that'll force us to do adaptation. I was able to tell the activists that things are a bit better than they expect, although their vehement definitely had an effect on me to push harder. It was eye-opening how hardcore they were, and of course, you know, they've kept the issue visible. You know, I wish it was a bipartisan issue in the US. Fortunately, in most countries, you know, the argument is what, how to solve the climate, not, you know, is it important at all. My hope to eradicate malaria in my lifetime. I want

to eradicate in my lifetime. It's a tougher constraint. I'll be disappointed if the global health issue doesn't get significant viewership because, you know, the of my time and resources, you know, right up there with climate. That's the thing I work on the most, like Malaria deaths, which is a big focus of that. The 500,000 kids a year who are dying of that, you know. I'm trying to be smarter about how we get, you know, everybody to care about that, you know, so that the rich country stays engaged in helping out.

Bill Gates on AI, Misinformation, Climate Change and the Global Health Crisis

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The ability to work with AI is becoming more crucial than traditional skills like Excel or the internet.

AI's advancement may lead to a future with less work, raising questions about managing its impact and addressing shortages in essential services like teaching and healthcare.

The episode explores the balance between machine and human roles, the creative potential of individuals, and the global struggle to find the right boundaries in a rapidly changing world.

The Importance of Online Identity and Accountability

Online anonymity can lead to harmful behavior, making it crucial to have systems that connect users to real-world identities.

Deep fakes and misinformation highlight the need for greater awareness of content creators.

Transitioning away from hydrocarbons and implementing tax credits for new technologies are key strategies for accelerating energy transition and advancing the grid.

Addressing Climate Change and the Role of Hydrogen

Permitting policies are being adjusted to avoid slowing down progress in addressing climate change.

Hydrogen is seen as a key resource, with philanthropic funds being utilized to drive forward effective policies.

While not meeting all activists' expectations, progress is being made, and the issue is gaining visibility, with a hopeful outlook for eradicating malaria in the future.

The speaker is focused on eradicating global health issues, particularly malaria, which causes 500,000 child deaths annually.

They express disappointment at the lack of significant viewership for these issues, emphasizing the importance of engaging rich countries in providing help.

The speaker is determined to find smarter ways to raise awareness and foster care for these critical health challenges.