Bill Gates just said what most tech leaders won't. AI will affect the job market over the next several years. Not decades. Years. And he has no reason to say it unless he means it.

What you'll learn:

• Gates compared AI to the internet bubble—the transformation is real, but a lot of bets will be dead ends
• We don't have permission to drive up people's electricity costs." Data centers are power-hungry. You'll pay for it.
• If AI can approximate what took you decades to learn, what's your value proposition now?
• Government policy is uncertain. Tariffs shift. That instability affects your retirement accounts.
• Gates framed AI as "basically intelligence"—a capability that used to be uniquely human, now for sale

Bill Gates said what most tech leaders won't: AI will affect the job market in years, not decades. He compared it to the internet bubble—the transformation is real, but a lot of bets will be dead ends. He has no reason to say it unless he means it.

Gates also warned: we don't have permission to drive up people's electricity costs. Data centers are power-hungry. If you're on a fixed income watching utility bills rise, the infrastructure decisions made now will affect what you pay for the next twenty years.