Bill Gates

So, you know, we're on the precipice of these AI breakthroughs, the reliability and capabilities. You know, it's kind of an extension of what I worked on as a child, you know, personal computers, then internet, then cell phones, and now AI. But it's because it's super intelligence, it's of a different character. And it'll put us to the test on... how we work together within the U.S.

and how countries work together.

and how countries work together.

You know, this whole thing of how you balance free speech versus not, you know, discouraging people from using vaccines when that would be beneficial for them or... even extreme stuff like Holocaust denial or some bad things there. I'm a little bit disappointed that my generation hasn't

You know, this whole thing of how you balance free speech versus not, you know, discouraging people from using vaccines when that would be beneficial for them or... even extreme stuff like Holocaust denial or some bad things there. I'm a little bit disappointed that my generation hasn't

got a clear prescription to how we achieve both the goals, free speech and yet reasonable discourse that's not misleading people. I mean, during the pandemic, the negativity about vaccines, some of which had me being some weird misbehaving actor, which was a lot of craziness, clearly over a million people died who should have benefited from the vaccine.

got a clear prescription to how we achieve both the goals, free speech and yet reasonable discourse that's not misleading people. I mean, during the pandemic, the negativity about vaccines, some of which had me being some weird misbehaving actor, which was a lot of craziness, clearly over a million people died who should have benefited from the vaccine.

And next time, you know, whether it's an out of control AI or the next pandemic, the impact of not getting facts out could be much more dramatic. I mean, the next, You could have a pathogen that was 10 times or 20 times as fatal as COVID was, particularly once Omicron comes along. The fatality rate is actually reasonably modest and mostly elder people. So politics meets AI is where –

And next time, you know, whether it's an out of control AI or the next pandemic, the impact of not getting facts out could be much more dramatic. I mean, the next, You could have a pathogen that was 10 times or 20 times as fatal as COVID was, particularly once Omicron comes along. The fatality rate is actually reasonably modest and mostly elder people. So politics meets AI is where –

A lot of our fates will be determined even in the next 10 years.

A lot of our fates will be determined even in the next 10 years.

Well, hopefully, there's some things I really do understand about that. And whether it's giving advice to Microsoft or in my foundation work on education and health. You know, using it, you know, the place where you have the greatest shortage of teachers and doctors is in poor countries in Africa.

Well, hopefully, there's some things I really do understand about that. And whether it's giving advice to Microsoft or in my foundation work on education and health. You know, using it, you know, the place where you have the greatest shortage of teachers and doctors is in poor countries in Africa.

And so the fact that these things, you know, can give farmers advice and give pregnant women advice and look at what your kid is eating and say, no, you need more protein in this diet. And it's essentially free. You know, the way that computing was free that I saw when I was young, now we're getting into this even more radical thing of intelligence. will basically be free.

And so the fact that these things, you know, can give farmers advice and give pregnant women advice and look at what your kid is eating and say, no, you need more protein in this diet. And it's essentially free. You know, the way that computing was free that I saw when I was young, now we're getting into this even more radical thing of intelligence. will basically be free.

That's kind of wild stuff. So I hope both with some specific ideas, but then with the lessons of the past, and where we've been able to shape things so far, you know, so that I think personal computing has largely been an empowering thing.

That's kind of wild stuff. So I hope both with some specific ideas, but then with the lessons of the past, and where we've been able to shape things so far, you know, so that I think personal computing has largely been an empowering thing.

You know, I was reading this book, Nexus, where Harari says that when the printing press comes along, it actually is books about witches and how you find witches that are the best selling. So just thinking, because we have new capabilities that will necessarily use them, at first in a net beneficial way, that's sadly a naive concept.

You know, I was reading this book, Nexus, where Harari says that when the printing press comes along, it actually is books about witches and how you find witches that are the best selling. So just thinking, because we have new capabilities that will necessarily use them, at first in a net beneficial way, that's sadly a naive concept.

Well, it's kind of amazing how well humanity is done. You know, the violent death rate over hundreds of years have gone down a lot. You know, more recently, we've gotten vaccines out to children and gotten the annual death rate from 10 million a year at the turn of the century down to about 5 million. vaccines being the biggest part of that because we got them out to most of the world's children.