Bill Gates Thinks You Might Only Work 2-3 Days a Week Thanks to AI — But Also Says, 'Legitimately, People Are Like, Wow, This Is a Bit Scary'

Bill Gates just hinted that your future workweek might be shorter — way shorter. As in, two to three days. And no, he wasn't joking.

In a sit-down with Jimmy Fallon of the "The Tonight Show" last month, Gates got real about artificial intelligence and what it might mean for our jobs, our routines, and basically the entire way society functions. When Fallon asked if we'll still need humans once AI hits full speed, Gates didn't attempt to skate around the answer or provide people with a false sense of future job security. 

"Not for most things," he said plainly, before adding, "We'll decide… like baseball. We won't want to watch computers play baseball."

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Gates, who co-founded Microsoft and arguably helped birth the modern tech age, isn't just riffing. He's raising legit questions about where all this is going.

"Should we, you know, just work like 2 or 3 days a week?" Gates asked, noting that AI will make once-rare skills — like top-tier medical advice and tutoring — cheap and widely available. "With AI, over the next decade, that will become free. Commonplace."

So, yes, if intelligence becomes as free-flowing as Wi-Fi, the traditional five-day grind might be on its way out. Gates says it's all "kind of profound," but also a little bit terrifying. "Legitimately, people are like, ‘Wow, this is a bit scary.' It's completely new territory."

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And he's not alone. Elon Musk, another billionaire who's neck-deep in the AI world, has floated a similar idea before. Back in 2023, Musk said speaking to then-UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, "There will come a point where no job is needed — you can have a job if you want one for personal satisfaction, but AI will be able to do everything." He even suggested a "universal high income," not just a basic one, might be necessary as AI eats up traditional work.

So why does it matter what Gates is saying?

Because this isn't a random tech bro tossing ideas around. This is the guy who helped build the digital backbone of the modern workplace — and now he's saying that same workplace might need a serious overhaul. If he's sounding the alarm, even while smiling through a late-night interview, the world might want to pay attention.

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And while Gates was once the guy who memorized his employees' license plate numbers to track their hours — no, seriously, he admitted it — he's not pushing hustle culture anymore. The tone has shifted. He's now a grandfather who's reflecting on what the future should look like for the next generation. Spoiler: it involves a lot less work and, hopefully, more meaning.

As AI begins replacing the "making things and moving things and growing food" side of the economy, Gates says society will have to decide what's left for humans — and how we want to spend our time.

So will AI take your job? Possibly. But according to Gates, it might also give you your weekends back — and then some.

Now the real question is: What would you do with a five-day weekend?

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