Bill Gates' AI Warning: Are Humans Ready For What's Next?

Yeah, I mean it's pretty stunning for me in the memo to say that if we could slow things down, I think we should consider that because of this need to get ready for such a rapid change. You know, throughout my life I've been a champion of innovation, certainly in the Microsoft context but also in the foundation context, you know, better seeds, better vaccines. And this is a rare case where innovation may be so broad and so dramatic that we're not ready for it in the near term. There are cyber attacks where these AI tools will enable the offensive side on the cyber attacks and so we need to engage on the defensive side to be ready for that. The idea of keeping it under control, I've always thought of that as something fairly far out in the future. But we did see a few incidents, you know, one that's called the Hugging Face incident where even today the way that we do this reinforcement learning, it to our surprise kind of motivated a form of taking shortcuts and cheating that was unexpected. And so now this issue of keeping things under control, that's there with the other challenges. It's a stunning set of capabilities. I do think India is a great example that we can drive the good stuff as fast as possible. But to have such a cautionary note from a cheerleader of technology, I think surprised some people. The Goalkeepers report really is about the good stuff, where the foundation is super deep in health and agriculture and does actually a fair bit of work in education as well. But it's a very balanced message.