Bill Gates says AI will replace human cognition; researcher pushes back
tobias_rees · x · 2026-10-04
Bill Gates argues that people who think AI will create more jobs don't understand what's coming: once AI is reliable enough, it starts replacing people, and "once you replace human cognition as a scarce element, you blow it away" — working 24/7, reading more, knowing every language. He frames this as evolutionary-history-level change, "like the aliens really are here."
The poster questions what qualifies Gates to make such a claim and why AI would replace human cognition at all.
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