Bill Gates Predicts Shocking Future: Only Four Jobs Will Survive the AI Revolution—Is Yours Among Them?
Bill Gates isn’t exactly one to shy away from throwing down a prediction or two, but this time he’s upped the ante—adding a fourth job to his previously tight-knit trio of careers that’ll apparently outlast the AI takeover. Yep, while AI’s already busy sweeping through job markets like a digital hurricane—especially in places like the UK where Morgan Stanley reports an eight percent dip in jobs thanks to automation—Gates reckons some roles are just too human to be canned. Coders, biologists, energy workers… and now, brace yourselves, professional athletes. Makes you wonder: can a robot really throw a curveball that gets the crowd on their feet? Or is there just something about human hustle and grit that no machine can mimic? If you’ve ever pictured a lifeless robot fumbling around the diamond, you’re not alone. Dig in to see why ol’ Bill believes athletes have a standing invitation in the future workforce—and why most of us, well, might just have to reconsider those career plans. LEARN MORE
Bill Gates isn’t shy of a prediction, but he’s added an additional occupation to his initial list of three jobs that will survive the rise of AI.
AI is already leading to people losing their jobs as companies flock to automation in the divine search for efficiency.
In the United Kingdom, for instance, a study by investment bank Morgan Stanley, per Bloomberg, found that AI had resulted in net job losses last year, down eight percent and the highest rates among leading world economies.
Bill Gates, however, has now added a fourth job that could outlast AI to his list of three.
Gates is a technology pioneer, as we all well know, so his thoughts on any subject involving computers and code carry a lot of weight.
Microsoft revolutionary Bill Gates. (Photo by Tom Brenner/Getty Images)
According to the Economic Times, Gates named coders – who’d have thought the people making AI would make sure it doesn’t come for them?! – biologists and energy workers as three professions that will still be required in the age of automation, earlier this year.
Now, however, he has suggested that professional athletes will not be replaced by AI, either.
Why are professional athletes safe from AI?
During a separate appearance on The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon, Gates said: “You know, like baseball. We won’t want to watch computers play baseball.”
Harry Kane can rest easy, safe in the knowledge that the robot who kicked that child in China isn’t coming for his spot in the England side. Though it might have done better with that chance against Ghana.
However, when Fallon asked Gates ‘will we still need humans?’ he offered a chilling answer, replying: “Not for most things – we’ll decide.”
Though he did go on to clarify that some actions will remain human-driven, though not many by the sounds of it.
He added: “So there’ll be some things that we reserve for ourselves, but in terms of making things and moving things, and growing food, over time, those will be basically solved problems.”
Harry Kane and his England teammates are safe from AI. (Nicolò Campo/LightRocket via Getty Images)
The jobs that are at most risk from AI
In a study produced in 2025, Microsoft listed 40 jobs that are ‘most at risk’ of being made irrelevant by the rise of AI.
Though senior Microsoft researcher, Kiran Tomlinson, clarified to Sky News that the study ‘explores which job categories can productively use AI chatbots, not take away or replace jobs’.
Yet, the jobs with the highest AI overlap are:
- Interpreters and translators (98 percent overlap)
- Historians (91 percent overlap)
- Mathematicians (91 percent overlap)
- Proofreaders (91 percent overlap)
- Automatic machine coders (90 percent overlap)
- Writers and authors (85 percent overlap)
- Statistical assistants (85 percent overlap)
- Sales representatives (84 percent overlap)
- Technical writers (83 percent overlap)
- Journalists (81 percent overlap)
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