Bill Gates reveals 3 jobs most immune to the AI takeover trends now While Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates remains optimistic about the social benefits of artificial intelligence, now even the billionaire mogul fears that AI could take his job. The candid quip came during a recent podcast conversation with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, whose company is responsible for the AI-powered chatbot ChatGPT. Over the years, Gates has maintained that the three best career paths for recent graduates are those in alternative energy, health biosciences, and advancing artificial intelligence itself — but notably 'billionaire philanthropist' is not on that list. 'I could even lose my job,' Gates said on his podcast, 'Unconfuse Me with Bill Gates.' 'When the machine says to me, "Bill, go play pickleball, I've got malaria eradication. You're just a slow thinker,"' he worried, 'then it is a philosophically confusing thing.' Over the years, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has maintained that the three best career paths for recent graduates are those in alternative energy, health biosciences, and advancing artificial intelligence (AI) itself — but notably 'billionaire philanthropist' is not on that list