Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates reflects on the future: "We weren't born to work."

With each passing week, and the arrival of new projects and applications for Artificial Intelligence, no one can deny that it will be a technology that will completely change the global landscape. And one of the areas where its impact will be most noticeable, or at least first, will be in employment.

We have already seen this with other technological advances, such as computers that have eliminated the need for certain jobs, but with AI this is taken to a new dimension , because this technology is capable of performing the same tasks as people and for now its capabilities are more limited, but thanks to constant development, they will soon be able to do even more things.

For example, we recently learned that Amazon has a center for humanoid robots that are being trained to replace human delivery drivers, and there are hundreds more like this in virtually every sector you can imagine. And while many are clutching their heads, others claim that this is part of a process to free us from the slavery of labor.

One of these voices is Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft and a leading figure in the technology sector. During an interview with The Indian Express, Gates reflected on the future of work in relation to this technology, making statements that have left no one indifferent.

"We were not born to work, work is an artifice derived from scarcity," Gates asserted, and defended his position by arguing that historically people have worked to obtain food; at first, work was hunting, then it was combined with agriculture and thus it has evolved to the point where we are today.

And even if it doesn't seem like it, we work to survive and afford a house, food, and then leisure time. And the arrival of AI is the final ingredient to free humans, letting machines do the work and leaving us more free time.

Gates believes the work week will eventually reach just two working days , and according to the tech mogul, the biggest challenge isn't developing technology that can replace the work we do today, but rather changing our mindset about work and leisure time.