Gates’s AI Alarm Collides With Economic Reality

Bill Gates argues AI will cause a turbulent transition requiring governance, but Mark Mills counters with history’s lesson: technology tends to boost productivity and create new jobs rather than trigger mass unemployment. Mills questions Gates’ “Human Reserved” idea, warns against overregulation and top‑down planning, and favors policies that unleash growth to fund resilience. He concedes AI is different, but argues current productivity gains aren’t yet at past tech revolutions’ scale, making a free‑market, growth‑driven approach the best path through the AI era.