In a fact-based news report published by Fortune magazine, it highlights new warnings issued by Jeffrey Hinton, dubbed the “Godfather of Artificial Intelligence,” about humanity's job future.

Hinton confirms that the visions of tech billionaires such as Elon Musk and Bill Gates regarding radical changes in the labor market are largely accurate; however, he sees waves of mass unemployment as inevitable due to the acceleration of replacing human elements with advanced technologies.

The report monitors the growing debate in Silicon Valley about the long-term implications of artificial intelligence. While Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, believes that technology will reshape all jobs and lead to a reduction in weekly working days to four, Gates and Musk go further by emphasizing that the need for human labor may almost disappear within two decades.

In this context, Hinton explains that tech giants clearly bet on artificial intelligence's ability to replace workers with machines. He warns that despite these predictions, the vision of what lies beyond the next ten years remains completely obscure and no one can accurately predict how societies will cope with this massive job gap.

Hinton’s warnings have raised broad dimensions and mixed reactions in the global media, which has been closely following the file of artificial intelligence and the labor market: The British newspaper The Guardian commented on the statements, noting that Hinton's warnings put governments to a real test to reform social safety nets and vocational education immediately, to avoid economic shocks that may be caused by the coming structural unemployment.

For its part, the American newspaper Washington Post addressed the aspect of doubts about this transformation, explaining that the division between optimism and warning among technology leaders reflects the extent of risks resulting from the absence of legislation and ethical covenants governing the development and integration of artificial intelligence in institutions.

While the Japanese newspaper Nikkei Asia focused on the economic effects in emerging and industrial markets, noting that the replacement of direct labor by artificial intelligence may restructure global supply chains and deprive developing countries of their competitive advantages based on human power.

These growing arguments reflect that the artificial intelligence crisis is no longer just a technical race or an investment competition between major companies, but has become a crucial issue that reshapes the concepts of work and economic and social stability for humanity in the coming few decades.