Bill Gates

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.

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.

So humanity for a being that grew up in these small hunter-gatherer groups, now we have big cities, complex technology. Our ability to get along in some ways has been good. Nuclear weapons that when I was young, my greatest fear was, okay, there was going to be a nuclear war. And I do worry the current generation doesn't have that exposure to it.

So humanity for a being that grew up in these small hunter-gatherer groups, now we have big cities, complex technology. Our ability to get along in some ways has been good. Nuclear weapons that when I was young, my greatest fear was, okay, there was going to be a nuclear war. And I do worry the current generation doesn't have that exposure to it.

So, you know, the arms treaties and, you know, spending too much money on building those weapons. I do worry that we've lost track on that one. But at least, you know, we haven't used those. And, you know, we've done pretty well so far. And, you know, will we this time? I think this is probably the hardest innovation because, you know, we do have human limitations.

So, you know, the arms treaties and, you know, spending too much money on building those weapons. I do worry that we've lost track on that one. But at least, you know, we haven't used those. And, you know, we've done pretty well so far. And, you know, will we this time? I think this is probably the hardest innovation because, you know, we do have human limitations.

Even I, when I see an outrageous article against somebody I don't like politically, I'm very tempted to click on it and have it tell me, yeah, he's even stupider than you thought. You know, this is a mistake. You know, we're all stupid. subject to that.