The Gates Foundation is committing at least $1 billion over the next two years to AI tools for health workers, farmers and teachers. CEO Mark Suzman told GeekWire he expects the figure to grow, but said AI efficiencies cannot make up for the billions governments have cut from global health.
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Gates Foundation bets $1B on AI to boost global health, agriculture and education
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Bill Gates Warns AI Will Be Designed ‘By And For The Richest’ Without Regulation
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Gates Foundation pledges $1 billion to expand AI for good
NEW YORK (AP) — Bill Gates is warning technology companies and world leaders that they must act now to ensure artificial intelligence combats social inequities rather than deepening disparities — and his foundation is pledging $1 billion to improve access.
The Gates Foundation is committing at least $1 billion over the next two years to AI tools for health workers, farmers and teachers. CEO Mark Suzman told GeekWire he expects the figure to grow, but said AI efficiencies cannot make up for the billions governments have cut from global health.
The Gates Foundation plans to spend at least $1 billion over the next two years to improve access to artificial intelligence, as co-founder Bill Gates warns of the potential for the world’s rich-poor divide to worsen based on adoption.
Gates had been an AI optimist for years, but he recently warned that the tech could erase jobs, launch cyberattacks, worsen inequality and pose a danger of addiction.
Bill Gates has announced that the Gates Foundation will spend at least $1 billion over the next two years to widen access to AI, warning that without intervention, Artifical intelligence could deepen global inequality rather than ease it.
On stage at Davos in the Swiss Alps earlier this year, Bill Gates, before an audience of the global do-gooding elite, announced a $50 million partnership between his foundation and an unlikely new ally, OpenAI, aimed at improving healthcare in Rwanda.
Bill Gates announced that the Gates Foundation will pour at least $1 billion to expand access to artificial intelligence. Gates wrote that the investment is urgent. “The decisions made in the next 12 to 18 months, about how AI is built, funded, and deployed, will determine whether this technology pr…
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