- Bill Gates said there were four things that the younger generations had to worry about an interview with Patrick Collison.
- He identified the climate crisis, uncontrolled AI, nuclear war and the spread of the disease.
- Despite his concerns, Gates said he still thought that people will be “so much better” in the future.
If Bill Gates was young again, he said he would be afraid more than the atomic bomb.
“There is, you know, of four or five things that are very frightening, and the only one I really understood and that I worry a lot when I was young was nuclear war,” said Gates in a Interview with Patrick Collison.
Gates, the founder of Microsoft and the current president of the Gates Foundation, shared his point of view on the evolving risks of society.
“Today, I think we would add climate change, Slash pandemic and bioterrorism control and AI control in a form,” Gates said. “So you know, now we have four footnote notes.”
Gates has also listed social polarization as a potential problem, adding that “the young generation must be very afraid of these things”.
This is not the first time that Gates has identified these specific areas of concern. In a 2023 blog article, Gates said that as his family grew up, his desire to improve the world in which they live.
“A little child makes you think about how we make sure that the future is better-politics, health, climate, etc.”, he wrote.
Gates said that society is suffering from a shortage of intelligence. But in this regard, he thinks that AI could present one solution rather than another problem. Despite the possible potential of technology that some have warned, Gates thinks that it could be exploited in a productive way.
“We don’t have as many medical experts, you know, people who can stay aware of everything, or people who can do mathematics in the city center,” said Gates. “And we have a shortage of intelligence, and we therefore use this market system to allocate it. AI, over time – and people can discuss deadlines – will make intelligence essentially free.”
Despite the challenges, Gates said he always expects the citizens of the future to be much better off – if they respond to the risks.
“In the absence of not solving some of these big problems, things will be much better,” said Gates. “Alzheimer’s disease, obesity, you know, we will have a remedy for HIV, we got rid of polio, measles, malaria. The rhythm of innovation is greater than ever.”
Fear can often act as paralytic. But in this case, Gates thinks that this could prove a galvanizing force to the younger generations.
“In fact, they will exert to a certain extent the probability and perhaps the impact of some of these things in order to activate people to make sure that we avoid these things,” he said.
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