Bill Gates: AI may push some toward an 'Amish' lifestyle

On the Decoder podcast, Bill Gates called AI a “Pandora's Box” and predicted many people may choose, like the Amish, not to live at the technology frontier. He warned the next 20-year transition will bring disruption and winners and losers. Six days later, Microsoft offered buyouts to 60,000 employees.

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