Cryptopolitan Report: Bill Gates Says Nobody Has A Plan For AI. 56% Of Our Readers Agree

What Gates Actually Wrote

On August 26, Bill Gates published an essay on Gates Notes titled “The turbulent AI era is here. The choices we make now are critical”. For a man who has been an AI optimist for the large part over the past few years, the shift in tone here is striking.

The line that stood out was this one: “AI will either be the greatest equalizer ever invented, or the worst source of injustice.” Throughout the essay, he does not claim to know which but he does reiterate that nobody is steering. “Right now, we are not preparing for it,” he wrote. “I don’t see evidence that leaders, experts, and communities are confronting the challenges adequately. There is no plan to ease the entry into the AI era.”

It’s important to note that he distinguishes his position from a general anti-AI stance. Gates is genuinely bullish on AI’s capabilities in fields like medicine, education, agriculture and science. His trepidation is on distribution and pace rather than capability.

The comparison he uses is with his own experience. Gates helped build the personal computer and the advent of this technology completely changed the way people worked over a generation. Compared to that, he believes, AI has the power to transform work and life way faster. AI performs cognitive work, spreads through infrastructure that already exists, and requires no specialised skill to operate. As he put it, “AI will take on work in law, customer service, medicine, software and manufacturing, and it will hit those industries over the course of a decade rather than a few generations.”

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