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AI and the death of work

We're almost a century on from when Keyne's predicted the 2-day week. Bill Gates is now predicting it again. So why should we believe him this time?

Blil Gates has predicted that within 10 years we’ll be working a two-day week, thanks to advances in AI. He says it’ll mean a vast rethinking of the workplace. It’s not too dissimilar to Keynes’s prediction in the 1930s that wed al be working 15-hour weeks, with more time to enjoy the good things in life.

Of course, Keynes was wrong. We are working longe…

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