Gates Foundation Warns AI Could Widen Inequality as Foundation Pledges $1B to Expand Access
- On Tuesday, the Gates Foundation pledged $1 billion over two years to improve global access to artificial intelligence. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates warned that technology must combat social inequities rather than deepen existing disparities.
- In the annual Goalkeepers report, Gates argued that AI risks becoming the "worst source of injustice" if left to market forces alone. He urged leaders to measure success by the technology's benefits to those with the greatest needs.
- The $1 billion funding targets key sectors: 40 per cent for education, 40 per cent for healthcare, and 10 per cent each for agriculture and digital infrastructure. These AI-focused initiatives aim to provide localized tools for underserved communities worldwide.
- Gates Foundation CEO Mark Suzman confirmed partnerships with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.org to develop AI tools. Collaborative projects include training health workers in Rwanda and building datasets for underrepresented languages like Chichewa.
- Ahead of next week's United Nations General Assembly in New York, experts caution that international processes move slower than AI development. Secretary-General Antόnio Guterres emphasized that AI governance cannot be controlled by only a few nations.
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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates warned in the Gates Foundation’s annual report that decisions made in the next 12 to 18 months will determine who will benefit most from advances in artificial intelligence. The foundation is investing at least $1 billion over the next two years to make AI more widely available, including in education, healthcare, agriculture, and linguistic diversity. Gates says AI can be a powerful force for social equality, but…
In the midst of the debate about existential risks of artificial intelligence, the foundation of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates wants to promote broader access to AI with a billion dollars. Artificial intelligence must help close the gap between rich and poor and not expand, the foundation argues in a current report.
The Gates Foundation will spend at least $1bn on AI access over the next two years
Bill Gates has committed the Gates Foundation to spending at least $1bn over the next two years on expanding access to AI, and paired the announcement with a blunt assessment of the people who are supposed to be regulating it. “I don’t think any government is nearly as deep on this as they have to […] This story continues at The Next Web
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