There are at least four “very scary” things that younger generations should be worried about, and no, TikTok or Instagram closing isn’t one of them.
“There’s, you know, about four or five things that are very scary, and the only one that I really understood and worried about a lot when I was young was nuclear war,” Gates said in a new interview with Stripe’s Patrick Collison before going on to give what he thought was the big four.
“Today I think we’d add climate change, bioterrorism/pandemic, and keeping control of AI in some form. So, you know, now we have four footnotes,” Gates revealed.
See below for the full video from the Computer History Museum channel, with additional concerns from Gates further below:
We don’t have as many medical experts, you know, people who can stay on top of everything, or people who can do math tutoring in the inner city. And we have a shortage of intelligence, and so we use this market system to kind of allocate it. AI, over time — and people can argue about the time frames — will make intelligence essentially free.
Absent not solving some of these big problems, things are going to be so much better off. Alzheimer’s, obesity, you know, we’ll have a cure for HIV, we will have gotten rid of polio, measles, malaria. The pace of innovation is greater today than ever.
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Join Discussion →On my list of things to worry about prime place is reserved for people like Gates.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
- C. S. Lewis
Definitely a more positive message over all. That's great. It's an interesting view indeed though. And it makes sense.