Will AI Solve Food Shortages and Disease?

Bill Gates says AI will solve food shortages and disease, including food shortages that are still real in Africa and not in the United States, and diseases whose human suffering is unbelievable. Solving them comes with a hit to jobs and to the sense of a unique contribution. A young person who wants to make a distinct contribution will find the power intimidating, and the crisis already visible in mathematics will show up in other fields.

Someone in their 20s, during the 20-year transition, can take up work AI still cannot do, use AI, have a lot of impact, and suggest policy. In a conversation with Claude about jobs kept for humans, the reserved share could not reach about 40 percent of the labor market without artificially limiting what AI is allowed to do. Even in the best case, the period is as tumultuous as any in human history. It is worse not to say that it is coming. Humans still choose how to shape it.