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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said Tuesday that artificial intelligence will make everyone more productive, including the “bad guys.”
“AI is a great tool to make people more productive,” he says. told Bloomberg Before acknowledging the technology, “it also means bad actors will be more productive, capable of more cyberattacks, and able to design weapons.”
“You know, the internet, microprocessors, all of these things have helped make everyone more efficient, including the bad guys, so we're making sure we have the best AI for cyber defense and defense against bioterrorism. We need to be good people,'' Gates told the outlet.
Bill Gates, Co-Chairman of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, during the EEI 2023 event on Monday, June 12, 2023 in Austin, Texas. (Jordan Vonderhaar/Bloomberg via Getty Images/Getty Images)
As FOX Business previously reported, the billionaire made similar comments at an event in New York last month, saying society needs to maintain an edge over bad actors in the rapidly advancing field of AI. Ta.
Last March, he said governments and private companies should work together on “how to limit the risk” of people exploiting AI.
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Gates told Bloomberg on Tuesday that people “sometimes lose sight of this fact.” [AI] This is the biggest productivity increase in our lifetime. ”
He also noted that AI is having a particularly “dramatic” impact on white-collar productivity. He also predicted that blue-collar jobs will become more efficient in the future thanks to robotics.
As a result, Gates theorized, the world would become “richer” and work fewer hours in the long run as a result, according to an interview with Bloomberg.
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Back in November, Gates also suggested that AI could facilitate the transition to a three-day work week for humans.
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As more companies decide to implement some form of AI, there are increasing questions about how AI will impact jobs and workers.
Earlier this week, an International Monetary Fund study suggested that around 40% of jobs around the world will be impacted either complementary or negatively by AI. The proportion of jobs exposed to AI is 60% in developed countries, 40% in emerging countries, and 26% in low-income countries.
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He spoke with Bloomberg while in Davos, Switzerland, to attend the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting. The rally, which began on Monday, is expected to draw around 1,600 business leaders, more than 300 politicians and other celebrities over five days.
Microsoft founder Bill Gates reacts during a visit with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to Imperial College University in London on February 15, 2023. (Photo by Justin Tallis – WPA Pool/Getty Images/Getty Images)
The focus of the WEF event is artificial intelligence. Other key topics revolve around global cooperation, economic and employment growth, and the environment.
Like Bloomberg, Gates also touched on the fairness of AI, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation said, “We want to avoid the usual 20-year lag between benefits to the rich and benefits to developing countries. “We are making significant efforts to do so,” he said. He pointed to the nonprofit's recent efforts to help launch medical and health AI tools in African countries.
Daniella Genovese and Breck Dumas contributed to this report.
