What I'm Reading: Bill Gates’s Blunt Warning on A.I.

Well, we definitely need to look at the things that slow down the good stuff. So for example, because the Gates Foundation is a nonprofit, we can work with regulators on how they use A.I. to do their jobs. Whether it’s organoids or biological models, we can speed up that regulatory piece. And there are some countries that are very much engaged in that type of acceleration.

The one application that’s going full speed ahead, and it kind of amazed me, is the agricultural one, because they’re getting better weather data to these farmers in Africa. We have over one million farmers in India already using the system. So it tells them what crop disease they have, what fertilizer to use, what varieties to plant. We’ve even put a bunch of services they can take advantage of on there. That one is going full speed ahead. - Bill Gates

• How will AI transform Africa? I reached out to my friend Alexander Zanders, founder of UfarmX. While he agreed that the technology has transformative potential, he said we need proper local infrastructure on the ground to provide reliable, accurate data from each community.
• Job re-skilling will be needed to address job displacement due to AI.
• I appreciate Ezra Klein pushing Bill on addressing his Epstein connections.

Additional Reading:

The transition to the AI era will be one of the most turbulent times in human history. Right now, we are not preparing adequately for that transition. If the world takes the right steps, AI will be a force for good and leave everyone better off.