What did Bill Gates recently say AI could replace in the near future?
In a recent interview on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Bill Gates shared a bold prediction: artificial intelligence will soon replace human doctors and teachers — making once-rare expertise freely available to all.
“Today, great medical advice or tutoring is hard to access,” Gates said. “But in the next ten years, with AI, that kind of intelligence will be free and commonplace.”
Gates calls it the dawn of “free intelligence” — a world where AI can deliver top-tier diagnoses, learning support, and personal assistance to anyone, anywhere. He shared this vision again in a discussion with Harvard professor Arthur Brooks, admitting the speed of AI’s rise is “profound and even a little bit scary.”
While Gates sees limitless upside, the future still raises big questions: Will AI enhance human work — or replace it entirely? Economists and ethicists continue to debate.
What’s clear: the shift isn’t coming — it’s already here.
