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.
\n\nBloomberg reports that Bill Gates, the Microsoft co-founder and leftist billionaire, laid out the pledge in a report that frames the coming months as decisive for how AI reshapes the world. “AI, if shaped well, could expand who has access to solutions, opportunities, and knowledge that has too often been out of reach,” Gates wrote.
\n\nGates says the money will fund AI tools built for education, healthcare and agriculture. Part of the pledge will also go toward folding non-English language sources into the large datasets that power AI systems, an effort meant to help developers building tools outside of English-speaking markets.
\n\nGates framed the timing as urgent. “The decisions made in the next 12 to 18 months, about how AI is built, funded, and deployed, will determine whether this technology primarily benefits the people who already have the most or reaches those who have the least,” he wrote. Elsewhere in the report he put it more bluntly: “AI could be a great…
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