Experts Agree AI Will Enable Fewer Working Days
Yuan is not the only tech leader who has expressed ideas about a shorter working week as a result of AI. In an interview on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Bill Gates said that he didn’t think we’d need humans for “most things” in the next ten years, freeing up humans to work less than five days.
Even Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, a company within an industry that likes to put its workers through long working hours, has expressed interest in the idea. He told Bloomberg TV in 2023 that AI will lead to people working “3 and a half days a week”.
However, it may not be all positive news for workers. In fact, Yuan explained that some job opportunities will be gone, especially for entry-level candidates, as AI continues to develop. But he also expressed some hopes that new jobs will pop up in their place. Engineers, for instance, could get jobs managing AI code or AI agents.
