New York (USA), 15 Sept. (LaPresse/AP) – Bill Gates has warned tech companies and world leaders that they must act now to ensure that artificial intelligence tackles social inequality rather than exacerbating disparities. His foundation has pledged to donate one billion dollars to improve access to it. The Microsoft co-founder made the appeal in the Gates Foundation’s annual ‘Goalkeepers’ report, which monitors progress towards the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals aimed at improving quality of life by 2030. The donation announced on Tuesday will be distributed over the next two years to AI-focused initiatives aimed at training models in local languages, improving health outcomes, enhancing educational tools and providing useful information to smallholder farmers around the world. Despite cuts to US international aid, the Gates Foundation’s CEO, Mark Suzman, said he would continue to press Congress and President Donald Trump’s administration to take a leading role in foreign aid. “We haven’t lost faith in the United States,” Suzman told the Associated Press in an interview. “We recognise that it has been a difficult period with the US government on this issue. But we believe there are still valid reasons to support it.”
Bill Gates: “Governments and multinationals should use it to tackle inequality”
New York (USA), 15 Sept. (LaPresse/AP) – Bill Gates has warned tech companies and world leaders that they must act now to ensure that artificial intelligence tackles social inequality rather than exacerbating disparities. His foundation has pledged to donate one billion dollars to improve access to it. The Microsoft co-founder made the appeal in the Gates Foundation’s annual ‘Goalkeepers’ report, which monitors progress towards the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals aimed at improving quality of life by 2030. The donation announced on Tuesday will be distributed over the next two years to AI-focused initiatives aimed at training models in local languages, improving health outcomes, enhancing educational tools and providing useful information to smallholder farmers around the world. Despite cuts to US international aid, the Gates Foundation’s CEO, Mark Suzman, said he would continue to press Congress and President Donald Trump’s administration to take a leading role in foreign aid. “We haven’t lost faith in the United States,” Suzman told the Associated Press in an interview. “We recognise that it has been a difficult period with the US government on this issue. But we believe there are still valid reasons to support it.”