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Toyin Falola

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```“Only three jobs will survive AI”: Bill Gates paints a grim picture for the future of work```


by Smith Noah


January 9, 2025


As technology continues to evolve at a breakneck pace, the future of work is becoming a hot topic of conversation.


Renowned tech visionary Bill Gates has recently shared a startling prediction: only three professions will withstand the tidal wave of artificial intelligence (AI) advancements.


But what does this mean for the millions of workers worldwide?


Are we truly prepared for this impending revolution?


*The New Paradigm of Work*

The rise of AI is reshaping industries across the globe, from automotive manufacturing to healthcare and beyond. Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft, is one of the most vocal proponents of AI’s potential to transform the job market.


He envisions a future where automation takes over routine tasks, leaving humans to engage in more creative and meaningful work.


“I believe AI has the potential to reduce our working hours and allow us to focus on tasks that require creativity and critical thinking,” Gates stated during a recent tech conference.


This shift could lead to a more fulfilling work environment, where individuals are empowered to innovate and solve complex problems.


*What Lies Ahead for Employment?*

Gates’ forecast suggests that only three sectors will remain robust in the face of AI disruption: energy, biology, and AI system programming itself.


These fields require a level of expertise and adaptability that AI cannot easily replicate.


For instance, energy roles involve intricate problem-solving and sustainability efforts that demand human oversight.


Similarly, biological sciences require nuanced understanding and empathy, especially in areas like healthcare and biotechnology.


To navigate this new landscape, Gates urges individuals to acquire skills in programming and digital literacy.


“AI is advancing rapidly, and those who master these skills will have better employment opportunities,” he emphasized.


Educational institutions are taking note, with many now incorporating coding and digital skills into their curricula to prepare the next generation for this shift.


Anecdotes from tech hubs like Silicon Valley reveal a growing emphasis on STEM education.


For example, a high school student in San Francisco recently shared how learning to code opened doors to internships at leading tech companies, showcasing the tangible benefits of embracing these skills early on.


*The Next Big Challenge of AI*

Beyond employment, Gates is optimistic about AI’s potential to revolutionize education.


“In the next five to ten years, AI-powered software will transform the way we teach and learn,” he predicts.


Personalized learning experiences tailored to individual students‘ needs and learning styles could make education more effective and engaging.


Imagine a classroom where AI tutors adapt lessons in real-time based on each student’s progress, much like how Khan Academy leverages technology to offer personalized learning paths.


This could democratize education, making high-quality resources accessible to students regardless of their geographical location or socioeconomic status.


However, with great power comes great responsibility.


The rapid development of AI also raises significant ethical and social questions.


How do we ensure that the benefits of AI are equally distributed?


What measures can we take to prevent job displacement and support those affected by automation?


Organizations like the World Economic Forum are actively engaging in these discussions, advocating for policies that promote ethical AI development and workforce retraining programs.


These initiatives aim to create a balanced approach where technology serves humanity without exacerbating inequalities.


*Are We Ready for an AI-Driven World?*

The transition to an AI-dominated job market is inevitable, but readiness varies across different regions and sectors.


Governments, educational institutions, and businesses must collaborate to equip individuals with the necessary skills and support systems.


For example, Germany’s Vocational Training Programs have been praised for their comprehensive approach to integrating digital skills into traditional trades, ensuring that workers remain relevant in a changing economy.


Similarly, tech companies are investing in reskilling programs to help their employees adapt to new roles created by AI advancements.


Personal stories from individuals undergoing career transitions highlight the importance of adaptability and lifelong learning.


Take Maria, a former factory worker in Ohio, who learned programming through an online course and now develops AI algorithms for a local startup.


Her journey underscores the transformative potential of embracing new skills in the age of AI.


*Conclusion*

Bill Gates’ vision of the future of work presents both challenges and opportunities.


While the prospect of only three surviving job sectors may seem daunting, it also highlights the areas where human ingenuity and expertise will remain indispensable.


By investing in education, fostering ethical AI practices, and supporting workforce transitions, we can navigate this transformation effectively.


As we stand on the brink of this new era, the key lies in preparation and adaptability.


Embracing the changes brought by AI can lead to a more innovative, efficient, and fulfilling work environment for all.



Oluwatoyin Adepoju

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The one lesson Heidegger’s critique of traditional metaphysics has taught the ever-evolving world of technology remains fundamentally the same, especially in light of Nietzsche’s somewhat enigmatic but (for me) his most engaging/productive philosophical achievement: the quasi metaphysical “theory” of the eternal return of the same events. Apparently, Gates has one central point about the status of AI (if envisioned in a “Nietzschean” context): the forever “repetition” of the “SAME” AI events. But neither Heidegger nor Derrida’s deconstruction of logocentrism has gone beyond Nietzschean re-evaluation of Western metaphysics. Contrary to the popular but mistaken view of Nietzsche as an atheist, this most misunderstood thinker is neither an atheist nor a theist in any traditional Western or Eastern sense. Nietzsche fruitfully affirms love of fate (“Amor Fati”) as long as you don’t envisage “fate” in terms of “what will be will be” (aka fatalism). Nietzsche AFFIRMS FAITH  and FATE. By the way, there AIN’T no Übermensch character anywhere in Nietzsche and this Übermensch in Nietzsche dies NOT mean “Superman” as in Western pop culture.

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Toyin Falola

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Jan 11, 2025, 12:47:34 PM (13 days ago) Jan 11
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Is this brilliant analysis not devoid of context?

The philosophers you have invoked formulated their ideas in the context of anxiety and stress, the rise of state power, and fascism.

The world has been reborn in some new ways: the cumulative technologies of the last 40 years are far more than what the world has since Ancient Egypt. Fukuma is one of the first to notice this trend in his book, The End of History, which the rise of China has dented. And now a more devastating context: the rise of Non-Governmental Individuals, as in Gates, Musk, amazon founder—cumulated into oligarchs, will certainly redefine the meaning of democracy and freedom.

Thanks

TF

 

Cornelius Hamelberg

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Jan 11, 2025, 5:09:33 PM (13 days ago) Jan 11
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Even more down to earth than your Hegel, Heidegger , Nietzsche and the superman of the comic strip ( Batman etc) do we not have Toynbee and his cyclical history ?


As mankind rapidly approaches the age of leisure, apart from writing poetry and composing so much music in one billionth of a second, even more worrying, AI and porn  -in reality,  

 AI is said to be transforming the porn industry : there’s the spectre of AI creating and marketing the superwoman and perhaps thereby precipitating the collapse of civilisation, as we currently know it, although at this stage the statistics are not reliable

Dr. Oohay

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Jan 11, 2025, 7:06:12 PM (13 days ago) Jan 11
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Hence (Cornelius) theses-antitheses (global or regional or local) will (most probably) produce no enduring or most meaningful syntheses for humanity; dead ENDs will constantly stare at us; perhaps, NOT even Gates’ Davos “god” can save us. Perhaps (physical) humanity will continue to be (forever) pregnant with ideas “Beyond Good and Evil”.

Oohay

Cornelius Hamelberg

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Jan 13, 2025, 9:45:55 PM (11 days ago) Jan 13
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Dr Oohay,


This is not looking too good either : https://www.youtube.com/@TheAfricaNewsNetwork/videos


Here’s where we are on the map of Europe to partly explain why here in Sweden we are seriously worried about a third world war breaking out


A Third World War would be more disastrous than WW1 and WW2 .


For the latently superstitious there is no conflict between que sera sera and “fatalism”. There are those who are latently worried about the visions of Anton Johansson:

For those of us who are superstitious, believe in prophecy etc. this is most serious: 

Anton Johansson : The Fate of Nations

https://docplayer.net/56763589-Anton-johanson-prophecies-of-world-war-i-and-iii.html

The Prophecies of Anton Johansson about a third World War

As son of the soil Teju Cole rightly titled those fact of life - as when evil is rewarded as a way of life without any challenge from the law : “Every Day Is for the Thief”- and so beyond good and evil, beyond Trump wanting to buy Greenland lock, stock, and barrel - he maybe wants to buy Mars too (but the Martians aren’t selling) Uncle Sam has already staked his claim by planting the American flag on the moon, and, sky’s the limit , so apart from adding  all the territories of present day Canada , Trump is probably toying with the idea of adding to his America’s greatness by paying cash to buy the sun, the moon and the stars, for, verily, buying is not the same as stealing is it, except for the slave trade of course) that, and this kind of breakneck, rat race competition


Well, I don’t know, but I’ve been told 

The streets in heaven are lined with gold

 I ask you how things could get much worse

 If the Russians happen to get up there first


And now for Trump, there’s also China plus all the reasons why unlike Siddhartha, Prince Hamlet would have liked to take some time out. 


Also worthy of consideration by the everyday-is-for-the-thief people, the posthumous rewards that the thief on the cross besides Jesus was looking forward to, over yonder in paradise, after Jesus promised,  “I assure you and most solemnly say to you, today you will be with Me in Paradise.” - thus giving some grounds for hope of salvation to the tiff-tiff people 


 In the meantime over here on mother earth,  there's all that existential agony because our collective existence is at stake, threatened by AI which the experts say is smarter than the best of us and could therefore be beyond our control as Stephen Hawking was already warning us, a long time ago. You may be taking all this in your stride with some stoic philosophical calm, but all this worries the Negro who dreams of mankind surviving, forever. 


This AI business, is it going to be a three layered system - first world, second world and what one of the Naipauls referred to a “turd” world where, hopefully because of technological backwardness we may ,than God remain human and not  have developed into being automatons or spare body/ reserve body parts for the first world populations 


So what’s going to happen in the next 100 years?


For the time being, also deeply worrying, is the kind of dangerous propaganda and plausible conspiracy that AI should be able to manufacture. Not so long ago it was about who blew up the Nord Stream pipelines; just a few days ago it was preacher man Elon Musk Exposes The Truth Behind Wildfires—It’s Worse Than You Think! followed shortly thereafter by the question have you heard about  Smart LA City 2028 ?


Well, here’s the Good News and it ain’t exactly Gospel, but you can believe it if you want to.


More good news: This futurologist analysis says that by the year 2100 Nigeria will be the most populous Muslim country on the planet 


By then someone else could be singing this song : You Can Close Your Eyes


Lou Reed : What's Good


Rogie : My Lovely Elizabeth

Dr. Oohay

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Jan 14, 2025, 10:02:55 AM (10 days ago) Jan 14
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AI as a BoundABLE/UNBOUDABLE Sisyphusian Frankenstein? Perhaps, humans definitely have a limit, but no human has ever experienced IT. The “IT” (so far) ALWAYS outlives the human.

Oohay

Cornelius Hamelberg

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Jan 14, 2025, 4:48:53 PM (10 days ago) Jan 14
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgVrlx68v-0


Prometheus - we take it from there 


Here’s George Galloway spitting fire 


If only by a general consensus AI 

would be used to secure eternal peace

not the peace of the grave 

but the peace of the brave

as Chairman Arafat  used to say 


Depending on Trump 

(so much responsibility 

on one man's shoulders)

the next world war will 

begin for real either 

in the Middle East 

or in Poland

once again.


I followed some of this live on Swedish TV:

Baltic Sea Region NATO Leaders and Rutte Meet in Helsinki


Faith can move mountains ?

Selamino, Ethiopia’s greatest guitarist 

enough reason not to worry.

There are also, these three 

The King James Version of the Bible

The Owerri Motor Park Shakespeare 

Muammar Gaddafi’s Sheikh Speare 


No nuclear conflagration 

World without end, Amen 

Dr. Oohay

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Jan 15, 2025, 4:17:31 PM (9 days ago) Jan 15
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Millionaire Arafat’s  “peace of the brave” statement (in its context) only has mere rhetorical force (lacks substantive influence). How many graves under his watch?

Oohay 

Emeagwali, Gloria (History)

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Jan 15, 2025, 7:17:27 PM (9 days ago) Jan 15
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So with a stroke of the pen, you
want to dismiss Arafat and his
long struggle for human rights
for his people.

I know of some  hard core Zionists
who fully recognize his contributions.



Dr. Gloria Emeagwali
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Cornelius Hamelberg

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Jan 16, 2025, 12:11:27 AM (9 days ago) Jan 16
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You could take a good look at the contents of Yasser Arafat Nobel Prize Speech


The context of that poignant couplet 


“The peace of the brave,

Not the peace of the grave”

 

is clear 👍 : We traverse the Camp David Accords (1978) through the Oslo Accords (1993) followed by The Nobel Peace Prize 1994 awarded jointly to Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin "for their efforts to create peace in the Middle East".


This partly explains Chairman Arafat’s optimism, bordering chivalry , the statement  in the wake of  the Nobel Prize for peace ( I read in The Jerusalem Post that Argentina's President Javier Milei has been awarded the 2025 'Jewish Nobel Prize ( basically  for supporting the maniacal Israeli war criminals genocidal decimation of Palestinian women and children ) 


Sadly, less than eleven months after  Yitzhak Rabin’s Nobel Prize Lecture Chairman Arafat's peace partner Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated  -shot at very close range by Yigal Amir, “a right-wing Israeli extremist who opposed the terms of the Oslo Accords” 


I remember that day so well. Maurice Oxenburgh, my Jewish brother-in-law from Australia was visiting - my friend Umar ( African American ) phoned; I answered - “What’s happening? “  He replied, “ They have shot your friend “ I was mortified , I thought that he was referring to my friend Ishaq Muhammad (my dear Hausa  bro from Ghana) who Umar used to refer to as “your friend”  - we were all friends really but Umar had fallen out with Ishaq , so whenever talking about Ishaq would refer to him as “your friend” - so I asked, “ Is he alive ?”   - and, astaghfirullah, Umar, typical field Negro replied “ Check it out on CNN Mutha-fkker!” 


No offence meant or intended, but if Dr Oohay wants to be absolutely cynical he could say that Yitzhak Rabin found his peace of the grave during his peace partner Yasser Arafat’s watch 

Oluwatoyin Adepoju

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Jan 16, 2025, 7:27:45 AM (8 days ago) Jan 16
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That assassination was horrible.

What of Anwar Sadat's assassination after he made peace with Israel, from what I recall?

What was the motive?


Cornelius Hamelberg

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Jan 16, 2025, 11:10:16 AM (8 days ago) Jan 16
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But you know the motive! 


You want to tease out a reply from Cornelius Ignoramus ?


My understanding of the Sadat saga was considerably reinforced much later, after reading Ariel Sharon’s autobiography WARRIOR  


Have you listened to the speech that Sadat made in the Israeli Knesset ?


Are you familiar with Hassan al-Banna , Sayyid Qutb,


 the ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood ?


In just one or two words: The Assassins must have sentenced Sadat to death for being an Arab uncle tom, much worse than a house negro, not merely a munafiq and a traitor, and a betrayer of the ethos, principles and doctrines of Gamal Abdel Nasser and Pan-Arabism 


I spent four months in Egypt in 1991. Shortly after the month of Ramadan, after visiting a Coptic church in Alexandria, two plain clothes security agents accompanied me to the police station to enquire from me,” Who are you and what is your mission?” I was released shortly after my explanation. That was in the heyday of Sadat’s successor Hosni Mubarak


I would have of course fared worse at the Rafah Crossing where, as I had told my coach who was rehearsing questions and answers with me, if the Israeli border guards at Rafah  were to ask me, “ What is the purpose of your visit?”, I would have told them “ What will be will be : From the rivers to the sea, Palestine must be FREE !”

Cornelius Hamelberg

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Jan 16, 2025, 4:08:09 PM (8 days ago) Jan 16
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Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju,


As Dylan sang, “ But I’ll know my song well before I start singing


You are familiar with the concept No Peace without justice


In January 1986, my formal study of the Palestine issue did not begin with the Nakba.and of course Ilan Pappé and his seminal The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine was only published in 2006. Nowadays you have materials readily available at RADIO ISLAM 


My formal study of the Palestine issue started with some of the writings of Ismail al-Faruqi and with Roger Garaudy’s 1982 publication The case of Israel: A study of political Zionism


The Zionists on the other hand would prefer that you begin with either the Biblical promise to Abraham or with the aim of further demonizing the enemy, fast forward to the one they refer to as Hitler’s Mufti // “Hitler’s Mufti”.


Whilst you’re at it ( attaining a more comprehensive understanding, not merely based on fantasy and wishful thinking but more importantly based on a sense of history, conveniently beginning with Caliph Umar Ibn Khattab’s Conquest of Jerusalem ( 637) on which event Article 11 Of the Hamas Covenant  is based, whilst at the same time acknowledging that the idea of the world being divided into dar-al-Islam and dar-al-harb is not etched in stone , and that if it indeed it was ( that any territory once conquered/ Islamized should forever legally be under Islamic jurisdiction) then it would be the onus of the Islamic Jihadists to reclaim much of Andalusian Spain which was formerly under Islamic control, and perhaps, also, the guardians of the Islamic Republic of Iran to bring some of the territories formerly under Nader Shah that were subsequently subsumed under the USSR umbrella some of which are currently former Soviet Republics, in addition to Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan…


It’s being projected that by  2054 Nigeria will be the country that has the most Muslim’s on planet earth and by that time may have well morphed or progressive into being a Muslim Majority Democracy, Inshallah, or would you prefer that all the Nigerian Muslims become Roman Catholics and start praying to Jesus


Please answer the question.


Following Ray Chehade on Facebook  one gets the insight that should not be necessary 





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