(Daily Caller)—Microsoft founder Bill Gates discussed how he envisions artificial intelligence (AI) can help save “democracy” through addressing “polarization” in a podcast discussion with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman posted on Thursday.
Gates also expressed his vision of how AI could lead to increased world peace and social cohesion in an ideal world in the episode of “Unconfuse Me with Bill Gates” posted to GatesNotes, the billionaire’s blog website. Microsoft is a huge backer of OpenAI, which makes ChatGPT; both companies, along with their main figureheads, have been involved in AI regulatory talks with the White House, senators and world leaders.
“I do think AI, in the best case, can help us with some hard problems … Including polarization because potentially that breaks democracy and that would be a super-bad thing,” Gates stated.
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Gates and Altman also discussed the potential for AI to establish world peace during the podcast.
“Whether AI can help us go to war less, be less polarized; you’d think as you drive intelligence, and not being polarized kind of is common sense, and not having war is common sense, but I do think a lot of people would be skeptical,” Gates stated. “I’d love to have people working on the hardest human problems, like whether we get along with each other. I think that would be extremely positive, if we thought the AI could contribute to humans getting along with each other.”
“I believe that it will surprise us on the upside there,” Altman responded. “The technology will surprise us with how much it can do. We’ve got to find out and see, but I’m very optimistic. I agree with you, what a contribution that would be.”
Gates Notes and OpenAI did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.
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Why do all these pseudo–conservative (highly suspicious) sites like the Daily Caller and The Epoch Times run all these PUFF PIECES on Bill Gates?!
If they delved into the neverending numbers of PHARMA companies and startups Gates and the Gates Foundation are invested in — — and were forthright about the GATES FOUNDATION actually structured as the world’s largest BIOPHARMACEUTICAL corporation, they might be considered real?! But just this Daily CUHRAP!
The Gates Foundation, Gates Ventures, Cascade Investments, Intellectual Ventures (part of the Gates Network, not a atandalone owned by Nathan as we have been led to believe)!
Gates is essentially reducing EVERYTHING to SYNTHETICS, then PATENTING all those SYNTHETICS!!!
(Also, am I gravely mistaken or didn’t Gates once have a daughter named Chelsea Gates, attending medical school at Rockefeller University in NYC and then several years back, as reported in a Sunday edition of the NY Times★, she went out to a neighborhood public health clinic and had a real SPIKEVAX, and rhen made some SNARKY tweet about “antivaxxers” — reported in the Times; now one cannot find any trace of her exitence?! Apparently she never existed?! Could have sworn when I was a contractor at Micro$oft years back he brought in one of his young girls to the Redmond campus named Chelsea?! Really freaking weird?!)
★ First, and last, time I had purchased a NY Times since the 1990s as I swore it off due to all the FAKE NEWS it spewed, this was shortly after the lockdowns began?! (Was curious if their Sunday Book Review ahad improved or gotten worse – that Sunday edition had a special section on transgender stories for very young kids, so it had devolved even more dramatically than I feared!?)