Bill Gates Sacks, Replaces Foundation Staff With Al Software, $870m Salary Saved

▪️ How Copilot, Artificial Intelligence (AI) software, taking their jobs drafted, delivered their sack letters.

▪️ AI Solutions are biased but no less biased than the human staff I employed and spend $870 million on annually – Gates speaks on mass sack

Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has laid off the entire Gates Foundation staff and replaced them with Copilot, the generative AI solution from Microsoft.

In a computer generated letter sent to staff, he said: “I’m excited about the impact that AI will have on issues that the Gates Foundation works on. Any new technology that’s so disruptive is bound to make people uneasy, and that’s certainly true with artificial intelligence. Company-wide agents will empower employees in new ways. Microsoft describes this as having a copilot. Fully incorporated into products like Office, AI will enhance your work.”

Bill Gates is reported to have acknowledged that current generative AI solutions are biased but no less biased than the human staff he employed in the Foundation. And unlike humans, GenAI doesn’t ask for vacations, doesn’t ask for a raise, and doesn’t ask about your friends.

Bill Gates is very positive about the impact GenAI will have on philanthropy in 2024, previously saying: “In a world with limited resources, you have to find ways to maximize impact. Innovation is the key to getting the most out of every dollar spent. Artificial intelligence is about to accelerate the rate of new discoveries at a pace we’ve never seen before. And it’s clearer than ever how AI can be used to improve access to education, mental health, and more.

He also thought that the $870 million that the Gates Foundation spends on staff every year to be wasteful, when Microsoft Copilot, the world’s first AI-powered answer engine, has specific answers to complex questions.